Let's hope that DRM doesn't creep into any of the excellent products from Hauppauge..at least not at the linux driver level. I don't see IVTV incorporating any crap like this in the future but who knows, shit happens.
My Knoppmyth box is probably the best thing I've ever used when it comes to what it's capable of. I'm paying $10 per month for my stupid Comcast DVR just to have a firewire output on it, and it's complete crap when it comes to being a DVR. It's slow, doesn't do time skipping (sure you can ff/rw at different speeds but no skipping chunks of time), doesn't clip out commercials, doesn't hold very much video, the inadequacies go on and on. About the only thing I can say good about it is that it boots up quickly. Then again, the hardware is a fixed proprietary item and the box isn't really capable of doing much, so it should boot fast. Also, it won't stream 'controlled content' like HBO through the firewire port either. Messy little situation there and I'm not sure what to do to work around it yet.
Still no argument. You install X11, install whatever program absolutely requires it, then uninstall it after you're finished. For the lazier, you just take it out of the startup sequence and leave it installed but never running..just in case you need it again sometime. From a security standpoint the former is better than the latter but sometimes convenience gets first priority.
You can't just say Enlightenment, it's been available for quite a while.
More specifically, the E17 window manager.:) It's been under development for what, 4 years now with CVS releases being somewhat usable only recently. It's the new Duke Nukem Forever.
Down here in Texas, we call it sat-tuh, like satellite. Say-tuh sounds bad, I'll admit, and I'd say serial ATA also if I didn't know the correct pronunciation.;)
Yep, and as any tech worth his weight in cat5 knows, the only time users REALLY need a resource is when they don't have access to it.
Just last weekend we had a 48-hour maintenance window (meaning everything is going down, don't even TRY to work). This was on a saturday and sunday, with sunday being Easter sunday. The entire company got an email a week in advance and we assumed we had plenty of time to do our major rework/upgrade of lots of things. We shut everything down and started working on Saturday morning.
Then the calls from our CEO started coming. He called every fucking hour just to see 'how things are coming along'. In other words, when is his email going to be back up? The explanation given was that the crystal ball is cracked and would he please refer to the email sent out earlier in the week. In the meantime he could feel free to spend time with his family.
Our illustrious CFO decided he'd stop by on sunday afternoon and 'try to get some work done'. We also had one of our ME's come in and try to do the same. Now granted, these are both family men with young children, so 'getting some work done' probably translates to 'getting away from the little monsters and the wife for a few hours'. I know they weren't dumb enough to not heed our maintenance window warning, but they still showed up anyway.
Next time we decide to do maintenance on the weekend, I'm bringing one of those stupid little putting greens with a single hole. That'll keep the execs busy while we get work done.
No no, they called them rolling *brownouts* here. Some cities weren't even hit. Strangely enough, Richardson, the North Dallas suburb where my servers live, kept power continuously that day while my computers in Dallas lost juice for a few minutes. Not sure how or why but maybe it had something to do with record highs really early in the year (100+).
You are at the Slashdot home page. There are 12 old articles here.
>Read article 1
Hmm. It seems this same story was posted on Digg yesterday. You've already read it.
> Read article 2
As you scan the headline, you realize you read it on Fark.com 2 days ago. Oh well, better luck next time.
> Read article 3
You're in luck! It's a flamebait piece by Dvorak about how the internet will explode in 2012..literally. Unless Microsoft saves it, of course. There are 486 comments attached to it.
> Inventory
You're carrying one pocket protector, 3 warming bottles of Bawls, an antistatic wrist wrap, and 50 cents in change. Not enough to spend OR jingle in your pocket.
> Post reply to article 3
You are posting a reply. Choices for your reply are:
a. In Soviet Russia the internet explodes you in 2012
b. Dvorak is a moron, why does he even bother.
c. Exploding Internet, FTW!
d. An actual, well-thought-out reply relevant to the article.
> d
As you start typing you feel a slight humming and see a bright light appear out of nowhere. You look down and notice your feet are being disintegrated one layer at a time. Moments before you are sucked into Tron's mainframe, you happen to notice a typo in your finished reply. Life just isn't fair is it?
I totally agree with you, but Slashdot is the original home of Nintendo fanboys, and I predict within seconds you and I will be modded into oblivion. It was fun to express a valid opinion while it lasted.:)
You hit the nail on the head. Mandrake was always really strict when it came to versioning, and it always bit people in the ass. KDE depended on nearly everything you installed; you couldn't remove kde-artwork without removing XFree! Mandrake created their own little dll hell by doing things this way. It still pains me to remember what I couldn't remove or upgrade on my old Mandrake system just because the dependencies were so far-reaching for every package.
It depends. Most distros allow you to exclude packages when you upgrade, up to a certain point. If a ton of X apps are really depending on xorg to be there, and you're running XFree, you may still be alright. One of the mysteries of linux is how you can install things you'll never use, just for dependencies' sake. So in fact you could install xorg if your apps wanted it to be there, but continue to run XFree.
Or you could suck it up and buy a supported card. Last time I checked, Nvidia Geforce and Geforce2 cards were practically free.
Well, you have to build up some kind of reputation before you can ruin it by trolling and cashing in on the ad revenue. Dvorak has written for magazines going on what..a decade or more now? I really can't blame him for whoring himself out to advertisers. I mean, journalistic integrity is more important than cash money...right?
That reminds me of a funny thing on IRC yesterday. I was in #asterisk, and some guy typed out a 2-line-long question..but at the beginning, instead of people, he substituted PPL. My natural smartass response to his question was, "What is PPL?". Someone else responded 'Pigeon Packet Loop'. I shot back 'yeah I heard fog causes packet loss' to which someone replied 'so does that make 'PPP' 'Pigeon Packet Poop'?
He's wrong for a reason. Dvorak has found a niche in publishing the unthinkable, and generating endless reams of flamebait from all kinds of industry pundits.
Basically, he says alot of shit to get people pissed off and therefore generates hits.:)
He should've shot for international fame by carring around one of those plastic double-headed light sabers and going off for anyone that pointed at him.
There are two sides to this coin. Either he could take the shame, or make the fame.
Well, Asia is kinda building everything electronic right now. Not that it's designed there (which alot of it is), but it's being built by Asians in Asian plants. Where I work, white guys own and run the place, white guys do CAD design, and Asians are building and soldering everything along with keeping the machines running smoothly. So maybe their rep isn't so far off.
I know Cisco has quite a few Asians doing design work and alot of Indians as well. The irony is that most of the Indians are work-visa guys and the Asians are born here/live here guys.
Sure, I see your point. I'd be more likely to do business with fine, upstanding, well-dressed "white guys" than other groups. I mean, appearance is 99% of your reputation, right?
"one of the stipulations for being accepted was to cut my ling hair."
Screw that, my monkey is hairy for a reason. But seriously folks, any company that discriminates based on the length of your hair, you probably don't want to work for anyway. Most IT guys don't get a lot of face time with customers let alone users, so having long hair and/or a beard isn't relevant. Now, if you could prove that you were a member of some wacky religion that requires long hair, you could have a discrimination suit (ka-ching) on your hands.
Dude, just quit typing. Proper typing and punctuation online, in public forums, is often used as a watermark for one's intelligence, just like proper speech in real life. Type like a moron, be interpreted as a moron, and you've no one to blame but your lazy self. Might as well leave the caps lock on while you're at it.
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"It's been under development for what, 4 years now with CVS releases being somewhat usable only recently."
:)
Thanks for backing up my assertion.
Let's hope that DRM doesn't creep into any of the excellent products from Hauppauge..at least not at the linux driver level. I don't see IVTV incorporating any crap like this in the future but who knows, shit happens.
My Knoppmyth box is probably the best thing I've ever used when it comes to what it's capable of. I'm paying $10 per month for my stupid Comcast DVR just to have a firewire output on it, and it's complete crap when it comes to being a DVR. It's slow, doesn't do time skipping (sure you can ff/rw at different speeds but no skipping chunks of time), doesn't clip out commercials, doesn't hold very much video, the inadequacies go on and on. About the only thing I can say good about it is that it boots up quickly. Then again, the hardware is a fixed proprietary item and the box isn't really capable of doing much, so it should boot fast. Also, it won't stream 'controlled content' like HBO through the firewire port either. Messy little situation there and I'm not sure what to do to work around it yet.
Still no argument. You install X11, install whatever program absolutely requires it, then uninstall it after you're finished. For the lazier, you just take it out of the startup sequence and leave it installed but never running..just in case you need it again sometime. From a security standpoint the former is better than the latter but sometimes convenience gets first priority.
You can't just say Enlightenment, it's been available for quite a while.
:) It's been under development for what, 4 years now with CVS releases being somewhat usable only recently. It's the new Duke Nukem Forever.
More specifically, the E17 window manager.
Down here in Texas, we call it sat-tuh, like satellite. Say-tuh sounds bad, I'll admit, and I'd say serial ATA also if I didn't know the correct pronunciation. ;)
Now IDE, on the other hand, that's a stumper.
Am I the only one that noticed this was coming from a bunch of no-name developers?
Nobody was on vacation, ass. It's such a small company that everyone reads all their email. These folks were just hard headed.
My guess is that it was winace. It's great software that I never get around to paying for. Mirc can be the same way.
Yep, and as any tech worth his weight in cat5 knows, the only time users REALLY need a resource is when they don't have access to it.
Just last weekend we had a 48-hour maintenance window (meaning everything is going down, don't even TRY to work). This was on a saturday and sunday, with sunday being Easter sunday. The entire company got an email a week in advance and we assumed we had plenty of time to do our major rework/upgrade of lots of things. We shut everything down and started working on Saturday morning.
Then the calls from our CEO started coming. He called every fucking hour just to see 'how things are coming along'. In other words, when is his email going to be back up? The explanation given was that the crystal ball is cracked and would he please refer to the email sent out earlier in the week. In the meantime he could feel free to spend time with his family.
Our illustrious CFO decided he'd stop by on sunday afternoon and 'try to get some work done'. We also had one of our ME's come in and try to do the same. Now granted, these are both family men with young children, so 'getting some work done' probably translates to 'getting away from the little monsters and the wife for a few hours'. I know they weren't dumb enough to not heed our maintenance window warning, but they still showed up anyway.
Next time we decide to do maintenance on the weekend, I'm bringing one of those stupid little putting greens with a single hole. That'll keep the execs busy while we get work done.
No no, they called them rolling *brownouts* here. Some cities weren't even hit. Strangely enough, Richardson, the North Dallas suburb where my servers live, kept power continuously that day while my computers in Dallas lost juice for a few minutes. Not sure how or why but maybe it had something to do with record highs really early in the year (100+).
He hasn't gotten to number 4 yet. :)
Awesome post, here's my take on it.
>Look
You are at the Slashdot home page. There are 12 old articles here.
>Read article 1
Hmm. It seems this same story was posted on Digg yesterday. You've already read it.
> Read article 2
As you scan the headline, you realize you read it on Fark.com 2 days ago. Oh well, better luck next time.
> Read article 3
You're in luck! It's a flamebait piece by Dvorak about how the internet will explode in 2012..literally. Unless Microsoft saves it, of course. There are 486 comments attached to it.
> Inventory
You're carrying one pocket protector, 3 warming bottles of Bawls, an antistatic wrist wrap, and 50 cents in change. Not enough to spend OR jingle in your pocket.
> Post reply to article 3
You are posting a reply. Choices for your reply are:
a. In Soviet Russia the internet explodes you in 2012
b. Dvorak is a moron, why does he even bother.
c. Exploding Internet, FTW!
d. An actual, well-thought-out reply relevant to the article.
> d
As you start typing you feel a slight humming and see a bright light appear out of nowhere. You look down and notice your feet are being disintegrated one layer at a time. Moments before you are sucked into Tron's mainframe, you happen to notice a typo in your finished reply. Life just isn't fair is it?
You are dead. Type retry to try again.
I totally agree with you, but Slashdot is the original home of Nintendo fanboys, and I predict within seconds you and I will be modded into oblivion. It was fun to express a valid opinion while it lasted. :)
You hit the nail on the head. Mandrake was always really strict when it came to versioning, and it always bit people in the ass. KDE depended on nearly everything you installed; you couldn't remove kde-artwork without removing XFree! Mandrake created their own little dll hell by doing things this way. It still pains me to remember what I couldn't remove or upgrade on my old Mandrake system just because the dependencies were so far-reaching for every package.
It depends. Most distros allow you to exclude packages when you upgrade, up to a certain point. If a ton of X apps are really depending on xorg to be there, and you're running XFree, you may still be alright. One of the mysteries of linux is how you can install things you'll never use, just for dependencies' sake. So in fact you could install xorg if your apps wanted it to be there, but continue to run XFree.
Or you could suck it up and buy a supported card. Last time I checked, Nvidia Geforce and Geforce2 cards were practically free.
Well, you have to build up some kind of reputation before you can ruin it by trolling and cashing in on the ad revenue. Dvorak has written for magazines going on what..a decade or more now? I really can't blame him for whoring himself out to advertisers. I mean, journalistic integrity is more important than cash money...right?
;)
Right?
Yeah, u r right.
That reminds me of a funny thing on IRC yesterday. I was in #asterisk, and some guy typed out a 2-line-long question..but at the beginning, instead of people, he substituted PPL. My natural smartass response to his question was, "What is PPL?". Someone else responded 'Pigeon Packet Loop'. I shot back 'yeah I heard fog causes packet loss' to which someone replied 'so does that make 'PPP' 'Pigeon Packet Poop'?
It just got wackier from there.
He's wrong for a reason. Dvorak has found a niche in publishing the unthinkable, and generating endless reams of flamebait from all kinds of industry pundits.
:)
Basically, he says alot of shit to get people pissed off and therefore generates hits.
He should've shot for international fame by carring around one of those plastic double-headed light sabers and going off for anyone that pointed at him.
There are two sides to this coin. Either he could take the shame, or make the fame.
Wow, that's exactly what my MythTV box does. I subscribe to no one. :)
"Not to say that things don't get out of hand once in a while, but that's the exception, rather than the rule."
Are you sure about that?
Well, Asia is kinda building everything electronic right now. Not that it's designed there (which alot of it is), but it's being built by Asians in Asian plants. Where I work, white guys own and run the place, white guys do CAD design, and Asians are building and soldering everything along with keeping the machines running smoothly. So maybe their rep isn't so far off.
I know Cisco has quite a few Asians doing design work and alot of Indians as well. The irony is that most of the Indians are work-visa guys and the Asians are born here/live here guys.
Sure, I see your point. I'd be more likely to do business with fine, upstanding, well-dressed "white guys" than other groups. I mean, appearance is 99% of your reputation, right?
"one of the stipulations for being accepted was to cut my ling hair."
Screw that, my monkey is hairy for a reason. But seriously folks, any company that discriminates based on the length of your hair, you probably don't want to work for anyway. Most IT guys don't get a lot of face time with customers let alone users, so having long hair and/or a beard isn't relevant. Now, if you could prove that you were a member of some wacky religion that requires long hair, you could have a discrimination suit (ka-ching) on your hands.
*note to everyone, ling is Thai for monkey.
"Are you a typing teacher, of just an asshole!"
Dude, just quit typing. Proper typing and punctuation online, in public forums, is often used as a watermark for one's intelligence, just like proper speech in real life. Type like a moron, be interpreted as a moron, and you've no one to blame but your lazy self. Might as well leave the caps lock on while you're at it.