Of course security through obscurity is pure evil, but you don't go and publish the fact that you will be looking for exactly 100MB of traffic or more outgoing in a certain period!
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out exactly why (duh).
...and pppd 2.4.0 as well. With 2 X 56K modems my 486 gateway will do 10-15K/sec on file transfers, and up to 25-30K for highly compressable data (text, etc). I'm connecting to a Cisco AS5300.
I had problems getting versions of 2.4 prior to test5 to even boot on my 486.
You can do a quick core analysis yourself with the iscda (Initial System Crash Dump Analysis) tool available from Sun's site. I've used this to find the cause of many crashes, including CPU cache related ones. Often the cause of the crash doesn't get syslogged, but if you have "savecore/dirname" enabled in/etc/init.d/sysetup you get a system memory dump when it reboots AFTER crashing. If you can't figure out what caused the crash by looking at the iscda output, send the cores to Sun, becaused they definately will.
Ultra 10's are IDE based systems with the exact same Hd's you use in a PC.
One of the main reasons that you as an admin want Ultras on the desktop is that other than the odd disk failure, they don't require any work. One admin can easily maintain hundreds of boxes, assuming they have set up their infrastructure in a decent manner.
I maintain hundreds of desktop U10s and I almost *NEVER* log into them or even give them a second thought because they *JUST WORK*.
> M$ products may go down a lot, but usually getting them running again isn't a problem.
> Sun's almost never go down, but when they go down you can bet your ass that it'll be a pain to fix it.
What?!!? Not at all! When A sun box goes you get on it's console, can probe scsi busses, do hw diags from the other side of the world via the serial console, etc.
I admin many Solaris boxes, from Ultra 5s to E6500s, and barring hardware issues, when the crash getting them up and running is generally very easy.
I do it under Linux using bttvgrab (search freshmeat.net) or MainActor (http://www.mainconcept.de). I recently tried PowerVCR under Windows and that seemed to work well. A trial version can be downloaded from their site (search google!).
I wrote a little shell script to record tv and compress to MPEG using the bttvgrab programs.
I have a dish upstairs wired into my WinTV card, so I don't have control over the channel (although the dish can be programmed to change channels and start the VCR as well).
WinTV cards are pretty cheap-- I bought 2 here in Ottawa, (ON,CAN) for $24/each (used). New they are about $130-$200CAN.
CPU requirements are PII+.
Record 2 channels at once? No, not unless it has 2 tuners or 2 inputs (to be fed by, say to satellite receivers).
I don't have the output to TV though, and am interested in using a card to output under Linux, or even possibly an external VGA->NTSC converter. Does anybody know of any TV output cards that have the TV/composite output ability working under Linux?
Take a pill. He was right. He said:
" The Amiga pretty much passed by the USA. Europe and other bits of the world were too busy coding demos and playing with freeware to worry about the USA. "
While the Amiga was pretty big in the USA and Canada, their *popularity* in North America was nothing compare the the popularity the Amiga enjoyed overseas.
I was a (Canadian) Amiga freak back in the day and was very much aware of the extreme Euro influence--and very much liked it too, I might add. Strange games and things no sane person would ever create:-)
The state of social/financial affairs in Europe is hardly relevant to this discussion. Who's on the high horse?
You can download CorelPaint 9 for free (Linux version only) from the Corel site. Works great, except a little slow and I wasn't able to get batch processing working without the program crashing..
>So far I've been pleasantly surprised. I just had to download the installation disks and after that I could install the whole thing over DSL. Wonderful! I wish I could do that with RedHat.
You can. I install Mandrake via ftp often and believe Redhat also has ftp install options. check the boot_net disks.
There is a perl shell, I haven't tried it but it looks interesting. Look here: http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/
Description reads as follows:
The Perl Shell is a shell that combines the interactive nature of a Unix shell with the power of Perl. The goal is to eventually have a full featured shell that behaves as expected for normal shell activity. But, the Perl Shell will use Perl syntax and functionality for for control-flow statements and other things.
This already exists, it's called linuxconf
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Check freshmeat for linuxconf, it's similar to SAM, SMIT, etc and works great!
What's the matter, you upset because you don't have the success San has had? "complete reject", maybe that's a self-description, but it surely doesn't apply to San. San's a cool shit and has always been. Grow up.
Where can I download a Linux client?? ( I forget which version of NB I'm using).
Re:serial ...... uhhh okay
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Why is this in the DVCR section? Anyway, you can use multilink PPP under Linux easily and use multiple modems-- my home gw box is doing that right now. You need a kernal patch to do MLPPP though.
My VCR skips commercials automatically on playback
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It's a Panasonic VCR. If you check consumers report's you'll see this VCR-- it's rated by them as #1. After recording a program it goes back and marks commercials, then on playback it automatically fast forwards past them. It also skips past the previews on rental movies (I've seen this fail a few times though). The commercial skips is flawless though! The VCR was only ~$500CAN.
I recently bought a Panasonic VCR (the best VCR rated by Consumer Reports) and after recording a program it will go back and mark the commercials-- then upon playback it automatically fast forwards through them. Works VERY well too! It also will skip over movie previews on rental tapes as well, but I've seen this fail many times.
Exactly! I'm suprised you're the first person to ask about the model-- I'm itching to get it into LightWave (running under vmware of course!) Location anyone??
Zaphod! San, did you name that after Zaphod Beeblebrox!?! Other than the novel, Zaphod's is a bar here in Ottawa that I used to and I believe San still frequents.
San! We still didn't get together for that lunch! shoot me an email if you see this!
I've been dealing with them for years! They're right down the road from Cisco here in Ottawa. They sell Sun clones, Sun's, HPs, SGI's too I think, as well as all manner of hardware. They also have a growing relationship with Network Appliance (www.netapp.com).
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Of course security through obscurity is pure evil, but you don't go and publish the fact that you will be looking for exactly 100MB of traffic or more outgoing in a certain period!
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out exactly why (duh).
Here's something I hacked together to record video and compress to mpeg using bttvgrab.
/bin/recordtv 60m
/bin/recordtv 3600
/dev/null
useage:
or
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH
i=`echo $1 |sed 's/m//g'`
echo $1 |grep m >
if [ $? == 0 ]
then
frames=`expr $i \* 30 \* 60`
else
frames=`expr $i \* 30 `
fi
echo Recording $frames.
sleep 1
bttvgrab -o pmm-best -N NTSC -w 640 -l ${frames} -S 1 -O wav -F grab.wav
bttvconvert -p quality=100 -i pmm -N NTSC -o mpeg-1 -r -l ${frames}
...and pppd 2.4.0 as well. With 2 X 56K modems my 486 gateway will do 10-15K/sec on file transfers, and up to 25-30K for highly compressable data (text, etc). I'm connecting to a Cisco AS5300.
I had problems getting versions of 2.4 prior to test5 to even boot on my 486.
You can do a quick core analysis yourself with the iscda (Initial System Crash Dump Analysis) tool available from Sun's site. I've used this to find the cause of many crashes, including CPU cache related ones. Often the cause of the crash doesn't get syslogged, but if you have "savecore /dirname" enabled in /etc/init.d/sysetup you get a system memory dump when it reboots AFTER crashing. If you can't figure out what caused the crash by looking at the iscda output, send the cores to Sun, becaused they definately will.
Ultra 10's are IDE based systems with the exact same Hd's you use in a PC.
One of the main reasons that you as an admin want Ultras on the desktop is that other than the odd disk failure, they don't require any work. One admin can easily maintain hundreds of boxes, assuming they have set up their infrastructure in a decent manner.
I maintain hundreds of desktop U10s and I almost *NEVER* log into them or even give them a second thought because they *JUST WORK*.
> M$ products may go down a lot, but usually getting them running again isn't a problem.
> Sun's almost never go down, but when they go down you can bet your ass that it'll be a pain to fix it.
What?!!? Not at all! When A sun box goes you get on it's console, can probe scsi busses, do hw diags from the other side of the world via the serial console, etc.
I admin many Solaris boxes, from Ultra 5s to E6500s, and barring hardware issues, when the crash getting them up and running is generally very easy.
I do it under Linux using bttvgrab (search freshmeat.net) or MainActor (http://www.mainconcept.de). I recently tried PowerVCR under Windows and that seemed to work well. A trial version can be downloaded from their site (search google!).
I wrote a little shell script to record tv and compress to MPEG using the bttvgrab programs.
I have a dish upstairs wired into my WinTV card, so I don't have control over the channel (although the dish can be programmed to change channels and start the VCR as well).
WinTV cards are pretty cheap-- I bought 2 here in Ottawa, (ON,CAN) for $24/each (used). New they are about $130-$200CAN.
CPU requirements are PII+.
Record 2 channels at once? No, not unless it has 2 tuners or 2 inputs (to be fed by, say to satellite receivers).
I don't have the output to TV though, and am interested in using a card to output under Linux, or even possibly an external VGA->NTSC converter. Does anybody know of any TV output cards that have the TV/composite output ability working under Linux?
The old standby "crack" will farm data out to multiple machines easily. I've used a whole network of Ultras to whip through a pw file pretty quickly.
Take a pill. He was right. He said:
:-)
" The Amiga pretty much passed by the USA. Europe and other bits of the world were too busy coding demos and playing with freeware to worry about the USA. "
While the Amiga was pretty big in the USA and Canada, their *popularity* in North America was nothing compare the the popularity the Amiga enjoyed overseas.
I was a (Canadian) Amiga freak back in the day and was very much aware of the extreme Euro influence--and very much liked it too, I might add. Strange games and things no sane person would ever create
The state of social/financial affairs in Europe is hardly relevant to this discussion. Who's on the high horse?
I still have several Wico models still working, I had used the same stick on my C64, A500 and then a 4000. Wico's were used in arcade boxes, IIRC.
Got my last wico for my 12th or so bday, I'm 28 now.
You can download CorelPaint 9 for free (Linux version only) from the Corel site.
Works great, except a little slow and I wasn't able to get batch processing working without the program crashing..
>So far I've been pleasantly surprised. I just had to download the installation disks and after that I could install the whole thing over DSL. Wonderful! I wish I could do that with RedHat.
You can. I install Mandrake via ftp often and believe Redhat also has ftp install options. check the boot_net disks.
There is a perl shell, I haven't tried it but it looks interesting. Look here:
http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/
Description reads as follows:
The Perl Shell is a shell that combines the interactive nature of a Unix shell with the power of Perl. The goal is to eventually have a full featured shell that behaves as expected for
normal shell activity. But, the Perl Shell will use Perl syntax and functionality for for control-flow statements and other things.
Check freshmeat for linuxconf, it's similar to SAM, SMIT, etc and works great!
What's the matter, you upset because you don't have the success San has had? "complete reject", maybe that's a self-description, but it surely doesn't apply to San. San's a cool shit and has always been. Grow up.
Where can I download a Linux client?? ( I forget which version of NB I'm using).
Why is this in the DVCR section?
Anyway, you can use multilink PPP under Linux easily and use multiple modems-- my home gw box is doing that right now.
You need a kernal patch to do MLPPP though.
It's a Panasonic VCR. If you check consumers report's you'll see this VCR-- it's rated by them as #1. After recording a program it goes back and marks commercials, then on playback it automatically fast forwards past them. It also skips past the previews on rental movies (I've seen this fail a few times though). The commercial skips is flawless though!
The VCR was only ~$500CAN.
Bwah! Make the short drive!
I recently bought a Panasonic VCR (the best VCR rated by Consumer Reports) and after recording a program it will go back and mark the commercials-- then upon playback it automatically fast forwards through them. Works VERY well too!
It also will skip over movie previews on rental tapes as well, but I've seen this fail many times.
Exactly! I'm suprised you're the first person to ask about the model-- I'm itching to get it into LightWave (running under vmware of course!)
Location anyone??
Zaphod! San, did you name that after Zaphod Beeblebrox!?! Other than the novel, Zaphod's is
a bar here in Ottawa that I used to and I believe San still frequents.
San! We still didn't get together for that lunch! shoot me an email if you see this!
I've been dealing with them for years! They're right down the road from Cisco here in Ottawa. They sell Sun clones, Sun's, HPs, SGI's too I think, as well as all manner of hardware. They also have a growing relationship with Network Appliance (www.netapp.com).