My Time-Warner-provided Scientific Atlanta 8000 DVR has zero ads in the program guide, s-video output, S/PDIF audio out (with Dolby AC3 on some content!), and a remote control interface that can be controlled by the $40 Radio Shack 8-in-1 remote -- even the DVR functions!
In this case, the cable operator has provided a single box that provides exactly what the subscriber wants: a fully integrated system with plenty of features.
If you find yourself on the east coast in December, you should really consider coming out to Kitty Hawk (Kill Devil Hills, actually, but who's counting?) for the 100th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first controlled flight. It's going to be a very big deal, including a reenactment of the actual flight.
You've just proved your disloyalty. That disloyalty will mean that the next time things get rough, management will have no qualms about letting bad things happen to you first, instead of their other loyal employees. It will also be taken into consideration when they consider things like raises, promotions, and such.
Accepting a counteroffer shows that not only are you disloyal, but greedy as well, since they were able to get you back just by handing you more money.
In the long term, it can amount to career suicide. You may not notice it at first, but four years from now, when you finally notice the career stagnation, you'll know where to point the blame: right on yourself.
...I think this is first inter-office optical LAN I've seen.
I've seen this error too many times lately. You mean intra-office, not inter-office. Intra = within, inter = between. Come on, I learned this in my third grade intramural sports league!
In a heterogeneous Unix environment, smbclient is relegated to a role somewhat like that of an FTP client. Linux supports smbfs; are there any plans to create the necessary kernel modules to allow other operating systems (Solaris, for example) to mount CIFS shares into their virtual filesystems?
Hmm, I don't think I'll be visiting Linuxworld again any time soon. The story linked to was littered with Doubleclick ads, which my proxy filtered out.
As a side effect, it became unreadable, but I don't care about that so much. I'm boycotting until such time as they remove the Doubleclick ads.
...and have a high-speed (DSL, Cable, T1, Ethernet) connection, you MUST visit Etree.
Etree is a collection of volunteers who distribute entire Phish (and gDead, and SCI, and MMW, etc.) shows, compressed with the non-lossy SHN format. A typical show (3 CD's) is around 1350 MB or so.
They collect only the highest-quality digital source tapes (for Phish, anyway), master them, and split the tracks (no more one-track sets!).
It's free, and it's the highest possible quality, and you're free to do whatever you like with your burns (give them away, trade them) as long as you DON'T SELL THEM. Check it out!
Buy a card that will allow you to go from DAT to hard disk digitally. Make sure you get one that can handle the same digital standard the DAT recorder uses, i.e. S/PDIF (Sony/Phillips Digital Interface Format, sometimes referred to as "domestic") or AES/EBU ("professional").
Some of the solutions for the PC are the DigiDesign AudioMedia (see http://www.digidesign.com/), the Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 (see http://www.zefiro.com/), the AdB Digital Multiwav Pro (see http://www.adbdigital.com/), the Digital Audio Labs CardD+ (see http://www.digitalaudio.com/products.htm), or the Turtle Beach Fiji (see http://www.tbeach.com/products/fiji.htm). The CardD+ comes highly recommended. There may be newer versions of these products, so be sure to check out the web sites.
Visit http://www.digitalexperience.com/cards.html for a feature comparison of many different models.
A cheap S/PDIF card available from Computer Geeks (http://www.compgeeks.com/) was evaluated by some newsgroup readers. Apparently there were some problems with the physical dimensions of the card (too wide for some PC slots), the documentation is poor, and the voltage level for both input and output was TTL instead of standard S/PDIF. You're probably better off with one of the established brands unless you're sure about what you need.
You should record from the DAT onto your hard drive, and then record the CD from there. If you try to record directly from DAT you'll likely end up with a lot of wasted CD-Rs due to buffer underruns or minor mistakes. You should use Disc-At-Once recording for best results; Jeff Arnold's DAO software is recommended for this on the PC.
One issue you need to be aware of is that some older DAT recorders can only record at 48KHz, while CDs are recorded at 44.1KHz. If this is the case with your equipment, you will have to do a sample rate conversion. The DSP on cards like the ZA2 will do this for you, or you can use an audio editing program like CoolEdit or Sound Forge.
There *are* CD-R drives that have analog inputs, and can record directly from audio sources. See section (5-12).
If you use a DAT and haven't been to the DAT-heads home page, you should definitely check out http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/dat-heads/.
If you want to manipulate audio DATs directly from your computer, you need a DDS drive with special firmware. The SCSI DDS drives that are typically sold for backups don't have the firmware required to handle DAT tapes. Most SGI workstations can do this, and Mac users should check out http://www.demon.co.uk/gallery/StudioDAT.html. If you have an Archive Python DDS drive, check out ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/DATlib.
An interesting combination of technologies is the DAT-Link from http://www.tc.com/, which connects to the digital connectors on the DAT machine (or MD, DCC, or CD player) and the SCSI interface on a computer. The device can be controlled from other computers on a network.
If you're interested in mastering production audio CDs, you should take a look at http://www.sadie.com/.
Please note that in my home state of North Carolina, the death toll from the flooding resulting from Hurricane Floyd has topped 50. People (and, unfortunately, bodies) are still being rescued and recovered from cities that are underwater. Oh, and it's raining again.
Slashdot covered this story as "RedHat will be shutting down their servers and colocating them for the duration of the storm." I have NO PROBLEM with this coverage, and I have NO PROBLEM with their coverage of the Taipei earthquake.
Slashdot is a site for TECHNOLOGY NEWS. There are plenty of other media outlets where you can get general news. This does not mean that Rob etc. (or the general Slashdot community) are unconcerned with the human toll, but as a tech news site, there is a responsibility to at least mention the technological impact.
As for me, I don't pray, but I am donating my time, money, and goods to help those in need in NC, and will be donating to the Red Cross for disaster relief in Taipei.
For more information regarding the situation in North Carolina, please visit the News and Observer.
While I know that you're trying to get a handle on the traditional "computer geek" stereotype, there are a few things I'd like to point out.
First, the "computer geek" stereotype grew out of an older stereotype from much earlier. Ever see Grease? Remember Eugene? While Grease was written in the 70's, it painted a fairly reasonable picture of the 50's, including the geek stereotype.
Second, I consider there to be many more different types of geeks. For example, my wife and I are classic "photo geeks". Different from someone who's just a picture-taker, we spend a great deal of time and get a great deal of enjoyment from studying photo magazines, technical details, and socializing with other photo geeks, most of whom we have nothing else in common with. (Apparently, I am not a "grammar geek.")
I also know bike geeks, car geeks, gardening geeks, and coin/stamp geeks. Note that this is different from a hobbyist; the geek makes a much more serious emotional and mental investment in their hobby than the average hobbyist. This can be functional in the fact that they will generally have a much greater skill and facility for that particular endeavor, but can also be dysfunctional in that other aspects of being a well-rounded human being and member of society are neglected.
While this is my own personal definiton, people sure do tend to know what I mean when I say that I'm a photo geek. (I'm also a computer geek, a car geek, and a stereo geek. I suppose I'm a renaissance geek, then.:-)
While I know that you're trying to get a handle on the traditional "computer geek" stereotype, there are a few things I'd like to point out.
First, the "computer geek" stereotype grew out of an older stereotype from much earlier. Ever see Grease? Remember Eugene? While Grease was written in the 70's, it painted a fairly reasonable picture of the 50's, including the geek stereotype.
Second, I consider there to be many more different types of geeks. For example, my wife and I are classic "photo geeks". Different from someone who's just a picture-taker, we spend a great deal of time and get a great deal of enjoyment from studying photo magazines, technical details, and socializing with other photo geeks, most of whom we have nothing else in common with. (Apparently, I am not a "grammar geek.")
I also know bike geeks, car geeks, gardening geeks, and coin/stamp geeks. Note that this is different from a hobbyist; the geek makes a much more serious emotional and mental investment in their hobby than the average hobbyist. This can be functional in the fact that they will generally have a much greater skill and facility for that particular endeavor, but can also be dysfunctional in that other aspects of being a well-rounded human being and member of society are neglected.
While this is my own personal definiton, people sure do tend to know what I mean when I say that I'm a photo geek. (I'm also a computer geek, a car geek, and a stereo geek. I suppose I'm a renaissance geek, then.:-)
While I know that you're trying to get a handle on the traditional "computer geek" stereotype, there are a few things I'd like to point out.
First, the "computer geek" stereotype grew out of an older stereotype from much earlier. Ever see Grease? Remember Eugene? While Grease was written in the 70's, it painted a fairly reasonable picture of the 50's, including the geek stereotype.
Second, I consider there to be many more different types of geeks. For example, my wife and I are classic "photo geeks". Different from someone who's just a picture-taker, we spend a great deal of time and get a great deal of enjoyment from studying photo magazines, technical details, and socializing with other photo geeks, most of whom we have nothing else in common with. (Apparently, I am not a "grammar geek.")
I also know bike geeks, car geeks, gardening geeks, and coin/stamp geeks. Note that this is different from a hobbyist; the geek makes a much more serious emotional and mental investment in their hobby than the average hobbyist. This can be functional in the fact that they will generally have a much greater skill and facility for that particular endeavor, but can also be dysfunctional in that other aspects of being a well-rounded human being and member of society are neglected.
While this is my own personal definiton, people sure do tend to know what I mean when I say that I'm a photo geek. (I'm also a computer geek, a car geek, and a stereo geek. I suppose I'm a renaissance geek, then.:-)
I find it interesting that the DNS servers listed as authoritative for the windows2000test.com domain (man whois(1)) don't seem to respond anymore. Perhaps MS has also decided to back out, sneaking away like a misbehaved child who's been caught?
I'm moving to Raleigh, NC in three weeks, and want to know what HS options are available. After days of searching, Flashcom is the only option I've found, and they claim that because the new address is 11000 feet from the CO, they can only offer SDSL (I'd prefer ADSL). Time Warner Cable seems to be incredibly backward. GTE offers DSL in Charlotte, but not Raleigh. Am I the only one who thinks that given the concentration of technology in the Triangle, it's a bit absurd that there are so few options for access?
US West offers it, and PSN Internet offers it (possibly resold from US West). In Phoenix, though, I'd definitely go with SpeedChoice; as long as you've got a line-of-sight to South Mountain, you're golden. It's cheaper and faster downstream to boot. (Modem upstream.)
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"Radio Shack: You've got questions, we've got batteries."
... trailing Fark by six hours for the past five years!
Think, man, think!
A one-inch drop onto concrete generates forces of around 200G. A one-meter drop generates between 8000 and 10000G.
Even with flexion of the case, I'd suspect that an iPod falling off a belt would subject the drive to at least 500G.
Friedrich Mohs might take issue with being renamed Moh. Uh, if he were alive and stuff.
IOW, it's not "Moh's hardness scale," it's "the Mohs hardness scale."
Yeah, I know. Fucking pedants suck all the joy out of life. w00t!
My Time-Warner-provided Scientific Atlanta 8000 DVR has zero ads in the program guide, s-video output, S/PDIF audio out (with Dolby AC3 on some content!), and a remote control interface that can be controlled by the $40 Radio Shack 8-in-1 remote -- even the DVR functions!
In this case, the cable operator has provided a single box that provides exactly what the subscriber wants: a fully integrated system with plenty of features.
So there. Plbbbt.
If you find yourself on the east coast in December, you should really consider coming out to Kitty Hawk (Kill Devil Hills, actually, but who's counting?) for the 100th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first controlled flight. It's going to be a very big deal, including a reenactment of the actual flight.
You've just proved your disloyalty. That disloyalty will mean that the next time things get rough, management will have no qualms about letting bad things happen to you first, instead of their other loyal employees. It will also be taken into consideration when they consider things like raises, promotions, and such.
Accepting a counteroffer shows that not only are you disloyal, but greedy as well, since they were able to get you back just by handing you more money.
In the long term, it can amount to career suicide. You may not notice it at first, but four years from now, when you finally notice the career stagnation, you'll know where to point the blame: right on yourself.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Come on, people! Do you have any idea how dumb it makes you look when you criticize a law you can't even SPELL?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
NOT:
Digital Copyright Millennium Act.
Hell, that doesn't even make sense.
It's hard to look appropriately self-righteous when you CAN'T EVEN SPELL THE NAME OF THE DAMN LAW.
Sheesh.
I've seen this error too many times lately. You mean intra-office, not inter-office. Intra = within, inter = between. Come on, I learned this in my third grade intramural sports league!
I particularly like the part that states that Titan A.E. features the voice of "Matt Demon".
In a heterogeneous Unix environment, smbclient is relegated to a role somewhat like that of an FTP client. Linux supports smbfs; are there any plans to create the necessary kernel modules to allow other operating systems (Solaris, for example) to mount CIFS shares into their virtual filesystems?
Hmm, I don't think I'll be visiting Linuxworld again any time soon. The story linked to was littered with Doubleclick ads, which my proxy filtered out.
As a side effect, it became unreadable, but I don't care about that so much. I'm boycotting until such time as they remove the Doubleclick ads.
Yah, yah, offtopic, I know. Sorry.
Etree is a collection of volunteers who distribute entire Phish (and gDead, and SCI, and MMW, etc.) shows, compressed with the non-lossy SHN format. A typical show (3 CD's) is around 1350 MB or so.
They collect only the highest-quality digital source tapes (for Phish, anyway), master them, and split the tracks (no more one-track sets!).
It's free, and it's the highest possible quality, and you're free to do whatever you like with your burns (give them away, trade them) as long as you DON'T SELL THEM. Check it out!
Buy a card that will allow you to go from DAT to hard disk digitally. Make sure you get one that can handle the same digital standard the DAT recorder uses, i.e. S/PDIF (Sony/Phillips Digital Interface Format, sometimes referred to as "domestic") or AES/EBU ("professional").
Some of the solutions for the PC are the DigiDesign AudioMedia (see http://www.digidesign.com/), the Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 (see http://www.zefiro.com/), the AdB Digital Multiwav Pro (see http://www.adbdigital.com/), the Digital Audio Labs CardD+ (see http://www.digitalaudio.com/products.htm), or the Turtle Beach Fiji (see http://www.tbeach.com/products/fiji.htm). The CardD+ comes highly recommended. There may be newer versions of these products, so be sure to check out the web sites.
Visit http://www.digitalexperience.com/cards.html for a feature comparison of many different models.
A cheap S/PDIF card available from Computer Geeks (http://www.compgeeks.com/) was evaluated by some newsgroup readers. Apparently there were some problems with the physical dimensions of the card (too wide for some PC slots), the documentation is poor, and the voltage level for both input and output was TTL instead of standard S/PDIF. You're probably better off with one of the established brands unless you're sure about what you need.
You should record from the DAT onto your hard drive, and then record the CD from there. If you try to record directly from DAT you'll likely end up with a lot of wasted CD-Rs due to buffer underruns or minor mistakes. You should use Disc-At-Once recording for best results; Jeff Arnold's DAO software is recommended for this on the PC.
One issue you need to be aware of is that some older DAT recorders can only record at 48KHz, while CDs are recorded at 44.1KHz. If this is the case with your equipment, you will have to do a sample rate conversion. The DSP on cards like the ZA2 will do this for you, or you can use an audio editing program like CoolEdit or Sound Forge.
There *are* CD-R drives that have analog inputs, and can record directly from audio sources. See section (5-12).
If you use a DAT and haven't been to the DAT-heads home page, you should definitely check out http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/dat-heads/.
If you want to manipulate audio DATs directly from your computer, you need a DDS drive with special firmware. The SCSI DDS drives that are typically sold for backups don't have the firmware required to handle DAT tapes. Most SGI workstations can do this, and Mac users should check out http://www.demon.co.uk/gallery/StudioDAT.html. If you have an Archive Python DDS drive, check out ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/DATlib.
An interesting combination of technologies is the DAT-Link from http://www.tc.com/, which connects to the digital connectors on the DAT machine (or MD, DCC, or CD player) and the SCSI interface on a computer. The device can be controlled from other computers on a network.
If you're interested in mastering production audio CDs, you should take a look at http://www.sadie.com/.
Please note that in my home state of North Carolina, the death toll from the flooding resulting from Hurricane Floyd has topped 50. People (and, unfortunately, bodies) are still being rescued and recovered from cities that are underwater. Oh, and it's raining again.
Slashdot covered this story as "RedHat will be shutting down their servers and colocating them for the duration of the storm." I have NO PROBLEM with this coverage, and I have NO PROBLEM with their coverage of the Taipei earthquake.
Slashdot is a site for TECHNOLOGY NEWS. There are plenty of other media outlets where you can get general news. This does not mean that Rob etc. (or the general Slashdot community) are unconcerned with the human toll, but as a tech news site, there is a responsibility to at least mention the technological impact.
As for me, I don't pray, but I am donating my time, money, and goods to help those in need in NC, and will be donating to the Red Cross for disaster relief in Taipei.
For more information regarding the situation in North Carolina, please visit the News and Observer.
First, the "computer geek" stereotype grew out of an older stereotype from much earlier. Ever see Grease? Remember Eugene? While Grease was written in the 70's, it painted a fairly reasonable picture of the 50's, including the geek stereotype.
Second, I consider there to be many more different types of geeks. For example, my wife and I are classic "photo geeks". Different from someone who's just a picture-taker, we spend a great deal of time and get a great deal of enjoyment from studying photo magazines, technical details, and socializing with other photo geeks, most of whom we have nothing else in common with. (Apparently, I am not a "grammar geek.")
I also know bike geeks, car geeks, gardening geeks, and coin/stamp geeks. Note that this is different from a hobbyist; the geek makes a much more serious emotional and mental investment in their hobby than the average hobbyist. This can be functional in the fact that they will generally have a much greater skill and facility for that particular endeavor, but can also be dysfunctional in that other aspects of being a well-rounded human being and member of society are neglected.
While this is my own personal definiton, people sure do tend to know what I mean when I say that I'm a photo geek. (I'm also a computer geek, a car geek, and a stereo geek. I suppose I'm a renaissance geek, then. :-)
Hal
First, the "computer geek" stereotype grew out of an older stereotype from much earlier. Ever see Grease? Remember Eugene? While Grease was written in the 70's, it painted a fairly reasonable picture of the 50's, including the geek stereotype.
Second, I consider there to be many more different types of geeks. For example, my wife and I are classic "photo geeks". Different from someone who's just a picture-taker, we spend a great deal of time and get a great deal of enjoyment from studying photo magazines, technical details, and socializing with other photo geeks, most of whom we have nothing else in common with. (Apparently, I am not a "grammar geek.")
I also know bike geeks, car geeks, gardening geeks, and coin/stamp geeks. Note that this is different from a hobbyist; the geek makes a much more serious emotional and mental investment in their hobby than the average hobbyist. This can be functional in the fact that they will generally have a much greater skill and facility for that particular endeavor, but can also be dysfunctional in that other aspects of being a well-rounded human being and member of society are neglected.
While this is my own personal definiton, people sure do tend to know what I mean when I say that I'm a photo geek. (I'm also a computer geek, a car geek, and a stereo geek. I suppose I'm a renaissance geek, then. :-)
Hal
While I know that you're trying to get a handle on the traditional "computer geek" stereotype, there are a few things I'd like to point out.
:-)
First, the "computer geek" stereotype grew out of an older stereotype from much earlier. Ever see Grease? Remember Eugene? While Grease was written in the 70's, it painted a fairly reasonable picture of the 50's, including the geek stereotype.
Second, I consider there to be many more different types of geeks. For example, my wife and I are classic "photo geeks". Different from someone who's just a picture-taker, we spend a great deal of time and get a great deal of enjoyment from studying photo magazines, technical details, and socializing with other photo geeks, most of whom we have nothing else in common with. (Apparently, I am not a "grammar geek.")
I also know bike geeks, car geeks, gardening geeks, and coin/stamp geeks. Note that this is different from a hobbyist; the geek makes a much more serious emotional and mental investment in their hobby than the average hobbyist. This can be functional in the fact that they will generally have a much greater skill and facility for that particular endeavor, but can also be dysfunctional in that other aspects of being a well-rounded human being and member of society are neglected.
While this is my own personal definiton, people sure do tend to know what I mean when I say that I'm a photo geek. (I'm also a computer geek, a car geek, and a stereo geek. I suppose I'm a renaissance geek, then.
Hal
I find it interesting that the DNS servers listed as authoritative for the windows2000test.com domain (man whois(1)) don't seem to respond anymore. Perhaps MS has also decided to back out, sneaking away like a misbehaved child who's been caught?
I'm moving to Raleigh, NC in three weeks, and want to know what HS options are available. After days of searching, Flashcom is the only option I've found, and they claim that because the new address is 11000 feet from the CO, they can only offer SDSL (I'd prefer ADSL). Time Warner Cable seems to be incredibly backward. GTE offers DSL in Charlotte, but not Raleigh. Am I the only one who thinks that given the concentration of technology in the Triangle, it's a bit absurd that there are so few options for access?
US West offers it, and PSN Internet offers it (possibly resold from US West). In Phoenix, though, I'd definitely go with SpeedChoice; as long as you've got a line-of-sight to South Mountain, you're golden. It's cheaper and faster downstream to boot. (Modem upstream.)