I give the folks as Raspberry credit for giving the computer away for nearly free, but then making a fortune off of the "accessories" necessary to make it work;-)
But I'm still dreaming of building a beowulf cluster of these so they can run a micro-cloud of docker containers with services offloaded from my little ION server.
Sprint bought them and are keeping some (many?) of the stores around here open. There's also Fry's and a few other places that still stock some of the geeky stuff in a back corner somewhere:/
Right now, I have 40 open tabs in this Firefox session, opened from different points in time and which I've never closed b'cos they contain interesting tidbits which would be tricky to search for again.
If I knew that there was something that would help me w/ this, I'd use it.
Ever heard of bookmarks?
Yeah, that place where web pages go to die, never to be seen again until their URLs become invalid? I've long stopped maintaining those graveyards, since my searchable browser history tends to do a great job remembering which sites I I actively leave open for long periods of time.
yeah, that's what I thought too, but the wife and kids actually love it. Now instead of taking his computer time away from him when he doesn't finish his shit, he's always running around trying to find more things to do to earn more minutes... an extra piano practice here, a round of dishes there... Everyone's much happier compared to the oppressive old days.
Well, here's my obligatory plug for the 2-headed dual-GPU nVidia box I built for my kids' Minecraft PC a few years ago: http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
Bought all the parts used from Craigslist ($400 for the system, $150 for each video card, and $5 each for a 21" CRT), and it's still better than my gaming PC. There's enough Minecraft mods on it to keep them busy, but they also each have their Steam account on it that they can use for Altitude, Alien Swarm, Portal 2, DOTA, etc. And sometimes World of Tanks, but it's annoying that the updater doesn't seem to work and we usually have to do a full reinstall using PlaysOnLinux each time there's an update.
In my dreamland, they'll eventually get around to using it for productivity apps, but someday....
The best part is I have their accounts controlled by kidtimer (https://github.com/grover66/kidtimer) to control their access time, and made a Rundeck webui to let my wife grant them login time after they've done all the other stuff they're supposed to do.
I still have the PS2 that I bought as an accessory for my Logitech G25 wheel for GT4 a few years ago and it still works fine last I checked (though some games are "sensitive" and take a little extra voodoo to load). But I thought everything since the PS3 loads everything from the internal HDD now.
Yep, I appreciate all of that. One of my favorite challenges from GT4 was actually the NASCAR-like thing, where you're put at the back of a pack of 6 identical cars, and you essentially have to draft the cars ahead of you in order to gain any speed advantage that you can use to gradually overtake them one-by-one. And of course, the one time I got past the first car too early, and then he proceeded to draft and overtake me again right before we crossed the finish line.:-P
But that's exactly what Nye is arguing for... NASCAR can preserve all of that and still add some relevant competitive advantage to the element of driver hypermiling skill simply by tweaking the rules a bit, as practically every other racing category has already done.
This section, like the [indycar section] that precedes it, is going to be short. That's because NASCAR, while immensely popular in the US, is about the least technology-driven form of motorsport around.
It might be easier to talk about the technology that NASCAR doesn't allow; the series is stubbornly resistant to the onward march of technology, only switching to unleaded gas in 2007 (12 years after leaded gas was banned in the US) and finally moving to electronic fuel injection in 2012, decades after carburetors vanished from our showrooms. There are no driver aids like traction control or semi-automatic paddle-shift gearboxes, and even car-to-pit telemetry is highly restricted.
And yet, you shouldn't get the impression that there aren't a lot of clever people doing a lot of clever things with those machines. To start, they've been designed to protect their drivers from the kinds of crashes that happen when dozens of cars race in packs two-, three-, or even four-wide at up to 200 mph. (That is no small feat.) It's also a highly aerodynamics-dependent racing series, which means plenty of computational fluid dynamics and wind tunnel research.
Eh, as a male dev who ran 3000 miles away from the defense-industrial complex surrounding the Washington DC partly because of the terminology (though the actual "warfighters" I worked with were the most remarkable people with awesome life stories), I have to admit that just about all of our security officers I've reported to over the decades were women. To the point where I believed the ISSO was the new pigeonhole to stash any and (and almost every) female employee.
My soviet-raised wife always laughs at all these equality efforts and doublespeak here. Both her grandparents were naval engineers (they met in University where degree programs were assigned to students by lottery to fill military quotas for WWII). Her great-grandmother had a doctorate back when women in the West were still being eclipsed and ignored by their male counterparts. Maybe someday the pendulum in the US will swing far enough that we'll be where the Russians were in the 80s with regards to gender balance in the workplace.
Yeah, back in my defense-contractor days we built several video walls for connected C&C rooms.
The high-end systems could put multi-display graphics at 1080p60 from any console to the theater and were based around the 64x64 Thinklogical DCS KVM over fiber modems and fed into a VistaSystems Spyder 12x8 video wall controller (of course they have larger units to drive your 3x3 wall, and you'd also be able to have a "preview" scaled down display of the entire wall which is also good for recording or broadcast). This pretty much lets you juggle sources around your video wall like in Minority Report. Good for theater events and presentations, maybe overkill for a 24x7 control room. The advantage was that you could plug literally anything anywhere and compose it on to the video wall somewhere.
Lower-cost systems were built around RGB Spectrum Quadview - type video wall controllers. These weren't as smooth and glitzy, but could get the bits displayed. The main benefit over software systems is you could zoom in and fill the entire wall with one important display, and you wouldn't have silly screen synchronization issues, which are quite noticeable and distracting (particularly when you put on a movie or sports event)
The point is to use the video wall as a cohesive display and not a matrix of disconnected monitors. It sounds like you're trying to build the latter, though. Personally I haven't found any of those types of displays to be very useful to the actual operators in the NOC, they have their own workstations showing everything they need, so I would say the main purpose of such a wall should be the ability to grab a few displays of any of the NOC operators and post them on the wall to allow them to communicate what they see to observers. But since the NOC operators are busy fighting fires, you'd want a separate AV controller station who can pick out the displays that are useful and freeze and post them to the video wall, be able to screenshot and rewind the video feeds to show notable events, reconstruct a timeline of events, etc.
It's possible to cobble something like this on the cheap using VNC (as long as audio and full motion 3D / video are critical) using vncproxy, vncrecorder, xosd (labeling sources is pretty important), and a few other things. This sounds the most like what you're trying to do, but seems like kind of a waste for the central 3x3 matrix wall. Be sure to use one of the "tight encoding" variants of VNC, such as tightvnc, tigervnc, or ultravnc on Win32, since the screenscraping performance really improves latency and frame rate (not enough for FMV, but close). With your thin client solution, you might be able to hack something together using VLC to each display a different part of a movie, but synchronization will be a big issue.
In short, you probably want a video wall solution + matrix switcher to get the full frame rate and all the bits from any source, and plug any half-assed software compositing solution into that. That's the better approach If you want to get any bit of your money's worth out of the big expensive LCD wall.
If they're already trained engineers developing code for engineering projects.
Yes, there's some sort of corporate exemption loophole where a company's "engineering laborers" don't have to be licensed, since the company accepts the responsibility for being sued for defects. On public projects there's still a licensed engineer who reviews and signs off on the final plans.
Eh, they let me travel from Washington DC to Rhode Island with a screwdriver. On the way back to Washington DC they found and confiscated it though. So I guess we know who they really care about.
Reminds me of the comedian sketch.... "Anyone here from Rhode Island?" *crickets* "Fuck 'em!"
My question is what temperature is the Earth supposed to be? I mean is it supposed to be a hothouse with tropical foliage everywhere as it once was or is it supposed to be a ball of ice like it once was? I'd think somewhere in between would be good but really all I hear is that it's getting hot but no real idea of what temperature it should be.
Well, the temperature that maximizes biodiversity across the planet.
Yeah, I don't know why it has been such slow going... back in the naughties I was working with distributed applications... We'd be setting up MOSIX clusters with transparent process migration (it's often faster to migrate the process to the data rather than get the data to the process) and distributed filesystems like CODA (which still aren't much of a commodity, they've just sorta migrated to "the cloud" with crap like Dropbox and Google Drive and MS OneDrive or whatever). I could walk up to any computer or device and access my desktop via VNC and keep working on whatever I was doing just as I had left it.
In the mean time, it seems like everything was set back 10 years as everything got reinvented for mobile devices. Network speeds for mobile phones were roughly about 10 years behind desktop computing. Screen size and resolution was closer to about 20 years behind, which might explain why phone interfaces today look more like Windows 3.11 than ever.
Perhaps the biggest difference is in price. Now that smartphones and computers are practically disposable, we've shifted from building highly reliable distributed systems to highly replaceable throwaway systems. Don't get too attached to the idea of a persistent remotely accessible virtual workspace, all your programs (I mean "apps") and interfaces you're accustomed to using will be thrown away during the next release cycle next week anyways.
On the back end, I do have a little shoebox ION server with a RAID1 library. But I don't really enjoy maintaining all that myself; I really prefer having streaming music playing from some human-curated feed. http://somafm.com/ has a lot of great streams, as does http://di.fm/ and http://sleepbot.com/ is also quite unique.
I'll occasionally use streamripper to record and m3u tag streams for, uh, time-shifting on the car or subway. It also makes a good icecast proxy, so I can have several clementine players around the house connected to my central box, so the house is just consuming one stream from the site, but I can walk from room to room and have everything playing at just about the same place.
Yep, had to scroll ridiculously far down in the thread to find one of you:D
I don't know what to do about the rest of my family, though:P
The wife just watches various streaming sites in Russian on her laptop. She will wikipedia for a movie or series she wants to watch, then hit the Russian translation on the sidebar, then search for the Russian name of the movie. Then she'll watch the thing in poorly-overdubbed Russian from any random Russian streaming site.
My daughter has taken to sitting in a closet (it gets better wifi than her bedroom) with her cheap-ass 7" tablet that someone bought for her and watches youtube for long stretches. Every once in a while, I'll toss some "classic" I want her to watch like Magic School Bus or Neon Genesis Evangelion on a microSD card and she'll go through that using VLC for Android.
My son will just stream something from Youtube on the iPad someone else bought for him while playing Minecraft or CS:GO on the Linux Mint rig I built for him.
Sometimes the kids will watch something with her mother on the laptop, but they have diametrically opposed tastes so they're rarely all there together... (same issue with book nights).
But at least we still all have somewhat similar music tastes. Not that there's much family time to salvage there, but every bit counts, I suppose.
I still run mutt + courier imapd + postfix on my home box (though I admit I don't use it much anymore since juggling a few gmail accounts worka very well now compared to the old days of yahoo / netscape / hotmail / etc.)
Simple way to boost your reputation is to simply configure a smarthost to send outgoing mail securely. There are plenty of tutorials on using gmail or several ISP smarthosts (like Verizon Business FIOS.
Yeah, it's not an ideal solution, compared to, say, making everyone use GnuPG signatures against a registry for automatic whitelisting. But it will get you out of the "open relay" mailhost automatic blacklist (which I assume is the real problem with your configuration.)
Yes, I agree, there's no way we'll get nice stuff like that in the US with prevailing attitudes like that. But it'll probably happen in other countries, who have already bothered to do things like high-speed rail networks, and banning private vehicles from downtown areas, and allowing algorithm-coordinated taxi networks to do business.
I'm just saying that we're more likely to be successful banning human-operated vehicles from completely robotic thoroughfares, than in somehow magically teaching autonomous vehicles to somehow successfully coexist with crappy human traffic "protocols", which is sort of in opposition to the submitter's thesis. Will this take the form of autonomous light rail and expand into autonomous buses first? Likely... some cities have already done away with their subway operators (Vancouver) and/or already admitted they just pay conductors to sit up front to make the public feel safer. And we also have lots of HOV / HOT lanes popping up, and working highway lane-following speed control systems on vehicles, it isn't unimaginable that we'll have some kind of dedicated robot-only lane along the sides of interstate highways in the not-too-distant future for passengers and truckers.
"Crime Premonition Savants" aside (which was probably just a more theatrically palatable metaphor for genetic/behavioral profiling which already exists), most of the other futuristic stuff in Minority Report was actually pretty well researched, like drones and 3D desktop interfaces and stuff.
2003: "I replaced you with a set of very small shell scripts." 2013: "I replaced your scripts with a six-figure enterprise DevOps platform."
I worked through some large companies trying to do this transition. They were literally trying to transition from a BOSS (bunch 'o shell scripts) repository to OpsCode Chef. The idea was that there were previously lots of Developer groups, throwing shit at a separate Operations group, and having us System Engineers in the middle trying to coordinate it all while also keeping the Systems Architects and other disparate managers happy. At some point they had formed a DevOps group to try to merge all of that, which was good, but last I heard they had disbanded the DevOps team and were moving on to the next buzzword already. Anyway, most of us left and I have no idea what they're doing now, but I imagine a lot of the Chef cruft ended up being an inspiration for http://www.explainxkcd.com/wik...
Anyway, it's been an interesting buzzwordy ride, and some of the technologies, particularly docker stuff, seems genuinely useful for delivering bits, enough so that I've started using it for personal projects at home. But I agree that most of it is just reinventing poorly what we had in the old days with pipelines for testing and packaging and version control and cluster management.
One upping a book promotion, I think the movie Minority Report got it right.
Cities and major highways will have fully automated transit systems. There is so much you can do with a fully automated system that just won't be possible with a hybrid halfway network. You can get rid of stoplights at intersections, and just have vehicles automatically sequence themselves and blow through at full speed. Global congestion control. Roads can be smaller, since you can pack vehicles tighter into fewer lanes at higher speeds, and have fully planned and deconflicted entrance and exit ramps. Fuel savings will be immense since there will be no more stop and go traffic. Manually operated vehicles will be banished from these corridors.
Then there will be separate road networks out in the suburbs and exurbs and the older parts of the city, where human drivers are still allowed to poke around, with automated assistance or without. Gridlock will rule, but there will be lesser capacity, so it won't be a big deal. Emergency response vehicles will still use these roads, since network coverage is much more comprehensive. There really is no real financial incentive to automate driving on these traditional roads with traditional human rules, though... not even for insurance savings, since there are still plenty of humans around to get into accidents.
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I give the folks as Raspberry credit for giving the computer away for nearly free, but then making a fortune off of the "accessories" necessary to make it work ;-)
But I'm still dreaming of building a beowulf cluster of these so they can run a micro-cloud of docker containers with services offloaded from my little ION server.
Sprint bought them and are keeping some (many?) of the stores around here open. There's also Fry's and a few other places that still stock some of the geeky stuff in a back corner somewhere :/
Right now, I have 40 open tabs in this Firefox session, opened from different points in time and which I've never closed b'cos they contain interesting tidbits which would be tricky to search for again.
If I knew that there was something that would help me w/ this, I'd use it.
Ever heard of bookmarks?
Yeah, that place where web pages go to die, never to be seen again until their URLs become invalid? I've long stopped maintaining those graveyards, since my searchable browser history tends to do a great job remembering which sites I I actively leave open for long periods of time.
yeah, that's what I thought too, but the wife and kids actually love it. Now instead of taking his computer time away from him when he doesn't finish his shit, he's always running around trying to find more things to do to earn more minutes... an extra piano practice here, a round of dishes there... Everyone's much happier compared to the oppressive old days.
Well, here's my obligatory plug for the 2-headed dual-GPU nVidia box I built for my kids' Minecraft PC a few years ago:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
Bought all the parts used from Craigslist ($400 for the system, $150 for each video card, and $5 each for a 21" CRT), and it's still better than my gaming PC. There's enough Minecraft mods on it to keep them busy, but they also each have their Steam account on it that they can use for Altitude, Alien Swarm, Portal 2, DOTA, etc. And sometimes World of Tanks, but it's annoying that the updater doesn't seem to work and we usually have to do a full reinstall using PlaysOnLinux each time there's an update.
In my dreamland, they'll eventually get around to using it for productivity apps, but someday....
The best part is I have their accounts controlled by kidtimer (https://github.com/grover66/kidtimer) to control their access time, and made a Rundeck webui to let my wife grant them login time after they've done all the other stuff they're supposed to do.
I still have the PS2 that I bought as an accessory for my Logitech G25 wheel for GT4 a few years ago and it still works fine last I checked (though some games are "sensitive" and take a little extra voodoo to load). But I thought everything since the PS3 loads everything from the internal HDD now.
Yep, I appreciate all of that. One of my favorite challenges from GT4 was actually the NASCAR-like thing, where you're put at the back of a pack of 6 identical cars, and you essentially have to draft the cars ahead of you in order to gain any speed advantage that you can use to gradually overtake them one-by-one. And of course, the one time I got past the first car too early, and then he proceeded to draft and overtake me again right before we crossed the finish line. :-P
But that's exactly what Nye is arguing for... NASCAR can preserve all of that and still add some relevant competitive advantage to the element of driver hypermiling skill simply by tweaking the rules a bit, as practically every other racing category has already done.
Or just abandon the thread here and go read the Arstechnica bit on this from last year:
http://arstechnica.com/cars/20...
Excerpts from the NASCAR section at the very end:
This section, like the [indycar section] that precedes it, is going to be short. That's because NASCAR, while immensely popular in the US, is about the least technology-driven form of motorsport around.
It might be easier to talk about the technology that NASCAR doesn't allow; the series is stubbornly resistant to the onward march of technology, only switching to unleaded gas in 2007 (12 years after leaded gas was banned in the US) and finally moving to electronic fuel injection in 2012, decades after carburetors vanished from our showrooms. There are no driver aids like traction control or semi-automatic paddle-shift gearboxes, and even car-to-pit telemetry is highly restricted.
And yet, you shouldn't get the impression that there aren't a lot of clever people doing a lot of clever things with those machines. To start, they've been designed to protect their drivers from the kinds of crashes that happen when dozens of cars race in packs two-, three-, or even four-wide at up to 200 mph. (That is no small feat.) It's also a highly aerodynamics-dependent racing series, which means plenty of computational fluid dynamics and wind tunnel research.
>"NASCAR is probably the most science/engineering oriented sport out there."
No, you are thinking of real racing, like Formula One :)
Exactly. Speaking of which, one of those other news for nerds sites has good coverage thereof:
http://arstechnica.com/cars/20...
Eh, as a male dev who ran 3000 miles away from the defense-industrial complex surrounding the Washington DC partly because of the terminology (though the actual "warfighters" I worked with were the most remarkable people with awesome life stories), I have to admit that just about all of our security officers I've reported to over the decades were women. To the point where I believed the ISSO was the new pigeonhole to stash any and (and almost every) female employee.
My soviet-raised wife always laughs at all these equality efforts and doublespeak here. Both her grandparents were naval engineers (they met in University where degree programs were assigned to students by lottery to fill military quotas for WWII). Her great-grandmother had a doctorate back when women in the West were still being eclipsed and ignored by their male counterparts. Maybe someday the pendulum in the US will swing far enough that we'll be where the Russians were in the 80s with regards to gender balance in the workplace.
Yeah, back in my defense-contractor days we built several video walls for connected C&C rooms.
The high-end systems could put multi-display graphics at 1080p60 from any console to the theater and were based around the 64x64 Thinklogical DCS KVM over fiber modems and fed into a VistaSystems Spyder 12x8 video wall controller (of course they have larger units to drive your 3x3 wall, and you'd also be able to have a "preview" scaled down display of the entire wall which is also good for recording or broadcast). This pretty much lets you juggle sources around your video wall like in Minority Report. Good for theater events and presentations, maybe overkill for a 24x7 control room. The advantage was that you could plug literally anything anywhere and compose it on to the video wall somewhere.
Lower-cost systems were built around RGB Spectrum Quadview - type video wall controllers. These weren't as smooth and glitzy, but could get the bits displayed. The main benefit over software systems is you could zoom in and fill the entire wall with one important display, and you wouldn't have silly screen synchronization issues, which are quite noticeable and distracting (particularly when you put on a movie or sports event)
The point is to use the video wall as a cohesive display and not a matrix of disconnected monitors. It sounds like you're trying to build the latter, though. Personally I haven't found any of those types of displays to be very useful to the actual operators in the NOC, they have their own workstations showing everything they need, so I would say the main purpose of such a wall should be the ability to grab a few displays of any of the NOC operators and post them on the wall to allow them to communicate what they see to observers. But since the NOC operators are busy fighting fires, you'd want a separate AV controller station who can pick out the displays that are useful and freeze and post them to the video wall, be able to screenshot and rewind the video feeds to show notable events, reconstruct a timeline of events, etc.
It's possible to cobble something like this on the cheap using VNC (as long as audio and full motion 3D / video are critical) using vncproxy, vncrecorder, xosd (labeling sources is pretty important), and a few other things. This sounds the most like what you're trying to do, but seems like kind of a waste for the central 3x3 matrix wall. Be sure to use one of the "tight encoding" variants of VNC, such as tightvnc, tigervnc, or ultravnc on Win32, since the screenscraping performance really improves latency and frame rate (not enough for FMV, but close). With your thin client solution, you might be able to hack something together using VLC to each display a different part of a movie, but synchronization will be a big issue.
In short, you probably want a video wall solution + matrix switcher to get the full frame rate and all the bits from any source, and plug any half-assed software compositing solution into that. That's the better approach If you want to get any bit of your money's worth out of the big expensive LCD wall.
It's not cannibalism since your name "pla" translates to "fish" in Thai.
Well played, though.
If they're already trained engineers developing code for engineering projects.
Yes, there's some sort of corporate exemption loophole where a company's "engineering laborers" don't have to be licensed, since the company accepts the responsibility for being sued for defects. On public projects there's still a licensed engineer who reviews and signs off on the final plans.
Next question.
Eh, they let me travel from Washington DC to Rhode Island with a screwdriver. On the way back to Washington DC they found and confiscated it though. So I guess we know who they really care about.
Reminds me of the comedian sketch.... "Anyone here from Rhode Island?" *crickets* "Fuck 'em!"
To be fair, I don't always start reading a comment from the subject line either ;-)
vs.
War = Freedom
Slavery = Peace
Etc. = Higher Taxes
Global Warming = More Prosperity
My question is what temperature is the Earth supposed to be? I mean is it supposed to be a hothouse with tropical foliage everywhere as it once was or is it supposed to be a ball of ice like it once was? I'd think somewhere in between would be good but really all I hear is that it's getting hot but no real idea of what temperature it should be.
Well, the temperature that maximizes biodiversity across the planet.
Yeah, I don't know why it has been such slow going... back in the naughties I was working with distributed applications... We'd be setting up MOSIX clusters with transparent process migration (it's often faster to migrate the process to the data rather than get the data to the process) and distributed filesystems like CODA (which still aren't much of a commodity, they've just sorta migrated to "the cloud" with crap like Dropbox and Google Drive and MS OneDrive or whatever). I could walk up to any computer or device and access my desktop via VNC and keep working on whatever I was doing just as I had left it.
In the mean time, it seems like everything was set back 10 years as everything got reinvented for mobile devices. Network speeds for mobile phones were roughly about 10 years behind desktop computing. Screen size and resolution was closer to about 20 years behind, which might explain why phone interfaces today look more like Windows 3.11 than ever.
Perhaps the biggest difference is in price. Now that smartphones and computers are practically disposable, we've shifted from building highly reliable distributed systems to highly replaceable throwaway systems. Don't get too attached to the idea of a persistent remotely accessible virtual workspace, all your programs (I mean "apps") and interfaces you're accustomed to using will be thrown away during the next release cycle next week anyways.
I think they just mean that it has multiple desktops by default.
And maybe compositing so you can have have transparent terminals.
That is all.
Do you have a music streaming rig?
I really like Clementine as a front-end.
On the back end, I do have a little shoebox ION server with a RAID1 library. But I don't really enjoy maintaining all that myself; I really prefer having streaming music playing from some human-curated feed. http://somafm.com/ has a lot of great streams, as does http://di.fm/ and http://sleepbot.com/ is also quite unique.
I'll occasionally use streamripper to record and m3u tag streams for, uh, time-shifting on the car or subway. It also makes a good icecast proxy, so I can have several clementine players around the house connected to my central box, so the house is just consuming one stream from the site, but I can walk from room to room and have everything playing at just about the same place.
Yep, had to scroll ridiculously far down in the thread to find one of you :D
I don't know what to do about the rest of my family, though :P
The wife just watches various streaming sites in Russian on her laptop. She will wikipedia for a movie or series she wants to watch, then hit the Russian translation on the sidebar, then search for the Russian name of the movie. Then she'll watch the thing in poorly-overdubbed Russian from any random Russian streaming site.
My daughter has taken to sitting in a closet (it gets better wifi than her bedroom) with her cheap-ass 7" tablet that someone bought for her and watches youtube for long stretches. Every once in a while, I'll toss some "classic" I want her to watch like Magic School Bus or Neon Genesis Evangelion on a microSD card and she'll go through that using VLC for Android.
My son will just stream something from Youtube on the iPad someone else bought for him while playing Minecraft or CS:GO on the Linux Mint rig I built for him.
Sometimes the kids will watch something with her mother on the laptop, but they have diametrically opposed tastes so they're rarely all there together... (same issue with book nights).
But at least we still all have somewhat similar music tastes. Not that there's much family time to salvage there, but every bit counts, I suppose.
I still run mutt + courier imapd + postfix on my home box (though I admit I don't use it much anymore since juggling a few gmail accounts worka very well now compared to the old days of yahoo / netscape / hotmail / etc.)
Simple way to boost your reputation is to simply configure a smarthost to send outgoing mail securely. There are plenty of tutorials on using gmail or several ISP smarthosts (like Verizon Business FIOS.
Yeah, it's not an ideal solution, compared to, say, making everyone use GnuPG signatures against a registry for automatic whitelisting. But it will get you out of the "open relay" mailhost automatic blacklist (which I assume is the real problem with your configuration.)
Yes, I agree, there's no way we'll get nice stuff like that in the US with prevailing attitudes like that. But it'll probably happen in other countries, who have already bothered to do things like high-speed rail networks, and banning private vehicles from downtown areas, and allowing algorithm-coordinated taxi networks to do business.
I'm just saying that we're more likely to be successful banning human-operated vehicles from completely robotic thoroughfares, than in somehow magically teaching autonomous vehicles to somehow successfully coexist with crappy human traffic "protocols", which is sort of in opposition to the submitter's thesis. Will this take the form of autonomous light rail and expand into autonomous buses first? Likely... some cities have already done away with their subway operators (Vancouver) and/or already admitted they just pay conductors to sit up front to make the public feel safer. And we also have lots of HOV / HOT lanes popping up, and working highway lane-following speed control systems on vehicles, it isn't unimaginable that we'll have some kind of dedicated robot-only lane along the sides of interstate highways in the not-too-distant future for passengers and truckers.
"Crime Premonition Savants" aside (which was probably just a more theatrically palatable metaphor for genetic/behavioral profiling which already exists), most of the other futuristic stuff in Minority Report was actually pretty well researched, like drones and 3D desktop interfaces and stuff.
Heh, I think this tweet is apropos:
https://twitter.com/NeckbeardH...
2003: "I replaced you with a set of very small shell scripts."
2013: "I replaced your scripts with a six-figure enterprise DevOps platform."
I worked through some large companies trying to do this transition. They were literally trying to transition from a BOSS (bunch 'o shell scripts) repository to OpsCode Chef. The idea was that there were previously lots of Developer groups, throwing shit at a separate Operations group, and having us System Engineers in the middle trying to coordinate it all while also keeping the Systems Architects and other disparate managers happy. At some point they had formed a DevOps group to try to merge all of that, which was good, but last I heard they had disbanded the DevOps team and were moving on to the next buzzword already. Anyway, most of us left and I have no idea what they're doing now, but I imagine a lot of the Chef cruft ended up being an inspiration for http://www.explainxkcd.com/wik...
Anyway, it's been an interesting buzzwordy ride, and some of the technologies, particularly docker stuff, seems genuinely useful for delivering bits, enough so that I've started using it for personal projects at home. But I agree that most of it is just reinventing poorly what we had in the old days with pipelines for testing and packaging and version control and cluster management.
Yep, sounds good.
One upping a book promotion, I think the movie Minority Report got it right.
Cities and major highways will have fully automated transit systems. There is so much you can do with a fully automated system that just won't be possible with a hybrid halfway network. You can get rid of stoplights at intersections, and just have vehicles automatically sequence themselves and blow through at full speed. Global congestion control. Roads can be smaller, since you can pack vehicles tighter into fewer lanes at higher speeds, and have fully planned and deconflicted entrance and exit ramps. Fuel savings will be immense since there will be no more stop and go traffic. Manually operated vehicles will be banished from these corridors.
Then there will be separate road networks out in the suburbs and exurbs and the older parts of the city, where human drivers are still allowed to poke around, with automated assistance or without. Gridlock will rule, but there will be lesser capacity, so it won't be a big deal. Emergency response vehicles will still use these roads, since network coverage is much more comprehensive. There really is no real financial incentive to automate driving on these traditional roads with traditional human rules, though... not even for insurance savings, since there are still plenty of humans around to get into accidents.