Sorry to pour water on your flame, but.... OpenDNS *used to* have this problem..... I tried them originally and this was a non-started for me because of a VPN situation.
However, I recently tried it again, and they've added a feature to deal with this, you put in the domain for which you want them to return a failure (essentially), and it does! "Viola"....
IIRC the latest version supports atomic operations on several platforms (including windows, AIX, solaris and linux, I believe).
Commercial support agreements are also available, if you need that sort of thing.
Except that the bundled applications usually aren't just "user level" applications. MS is trying to lock things down more, one feature is on demand privilege elevation, but stuff that the vendor crams in probably didn't go through a "normal" installation process.
But, if you distribute a program that runs on windows, and links to GPL'd libraries and is built with VisualStudio, do you have to provide a license to whomever wants one? I don't think so....
If so, you could state that any GPL'd project that distributes scripts to build with VisualStudio are already in violation.
> This is where the GPL gets tricky, but basically you don't have to license under GPL anything just for linking to a GPLed library or for using the output of a GPLed program. It's stated in the GNU GPL FAQ.
BZZZZZT! As near as I can tell, the above poster is completely wrong. If you *link* to a *GPL* (not LGPL) library, *AND* distribute your program in any way, it has just become GPL'd.
Except that when good 'ol Russ voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force on September 14, 2001, he clearly understood that the President already had this power.
Like any legislation, this resolution is not perfect. I have some concern that readers may misinterpret the preamble language that the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism as a new grant of power; rather it is merely a statement that the President has existing constitutional powers. I am gratified that in the body of this resolution, it does not contain a broad grant of powers, but is appropriately limited to those entities involved in the attacks that occurred on September 11.
Except that they bought tru-64 with Compaq (who got it from Dec), and then chose HP-UX because it was "technologically superior".
Yeah, Right.
*BZZZZZZZT*
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Well, you don't have everything that I have, since I mentioned that my box served several other purposes as well. The box that I replaced with this new monster was an AMD XP 2900 with a gig or fam and 4 120gb drives. Quite a bit cheaper and good enough for quite a bit of use.
I've had this server running for more than two years, so I would have spent more on the guide than you calculated.
I have MUCH more storage that your setup, which is good because I'm building a big library of kids shows, which I keep "forever" as opposed to expiring things after I've watched them.
The reason I went to the trouble of putting all the specs in was so that people could see that by downsizing it just a bit, they could get it for much less. Guess I should have said that.
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Except that you're proving my point. The post I was responding to was talking about why PC based DVR/PVRs are no good. I pointed out one reason why they are better than standalone ones. So, you are comparing a single stand alone DVR to the whole house networked DVR that is the entire premis of my post.
I never said do PC based if you're trying to get a single cheap solution. In that case, if you have a cable company that offers them, just get one from them, that's the cheapest.
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Sure, why not backup to a stripe set? My other machines abckup to this machine in case of component failure/stupidity. Sure the stripe set isn't 100% reliable, but unless fire/flood/nuke takes out my whole house, I've still got the data.
Been using software stripe sets since windows NT first supported them. Never lost any data because of it (stupidity yes, to stripe failure, no).
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wrong, wrong, wrong.
The power of a PC based DVR (I use BeyondTV myself even though I have a linux server in the house too), is not that you put one next to every TV. That would be "stupid". Instead, you put one in the basement where you don't care if it's noisy, then you put a $90 MediaMVP box from Hauppage on each TV, and wire it to a switch.
Compare that to putting a TIVO on 4 TV's, even if you get the box for free, it's $1200 for the lifetime guide access (which is free with BeyondTV), and then more money if you want the home networking option so that you can move programs from one TIVO to another.
Now, my setup cost more than $1200 (but not that much more), but then my BeyondTV machine is also my X-10 house controller machine, is a 3.2ghz p4 hyperthreaded with 1gb of 800mhz dual channel ram, a 100gb 7200rpm disk for the OS and 4 seagate ata133 7200rpm 300gb drives in a stripe set for the data volume. It's also my backup server. And I can watch any program from any TV in the house.
I've got right aroun $1500 in the machine, including the OS and software licenses and 4 MediaMVP boxes for a total cost (not including network switches, etc) of $1820 (I got a deal on the MVPs) for 4 TVs, and I could have another TV for free if I put the server next to a TV.
4 TIVOs would cost more like $2000 (200/box plus 300 guide fee) and would have a lot fewer features and much less storage, and some amount more for the networking option.
Don't know if this is a troll or not, but Bugzilla is pretty flexible. If you want to have strict access controls on BZ based on the owner, you can (and I suspect that this is how the mozilla instance is configured, but I've never used it), but that's certainy not required.....
>SCO claims to have found internal IBM e-mails > >This is a form of espionage which is illegal >without a court order.
Umm, RTFA, dude: SCO says it discovered the e-mails in a mountain of documents IBM produced in discovery related to SCO's lawsuit against IBM over the Linux operating system.
I was working as a consultant and had to take a trip out of town to setup a system. I put all the software on a SyQuest drive (made two copies), and since this was a SCSI drive, took my drive and SCSI card along with me. When I came home, I threw my dirty clothes in the washer, then dried them. When I took them out of the dryer, I found the SCSI card, sans the firmware chip. I stuck my head in the dryer with a flashlight, and found the chip stuck to the drum.
Straightened the pins on the chip, plugged it back into the card, put the card in my system, and "viola!", everything worked fine!
Well, I've been building a home PVR/distribution network, and I find that for simply distributing the content to televisions, the MediaMVP from Hauppage www.hauppage.com is a better solution. Available from buy.com for $89, it's cheap, supports 10/100 ethernet, and just works. This is a linux/busybox implementation, and there are sourceforge projects (two at least) that have been able to add things like telnetd and nfs client to it. The supplied software is a little "fresh" yet, but they're working on it. The current betta supports.wmv and.divx in addition to MPEG2.
If you couple this with the WinTV-250btv/BeynondTV bundle for $139 (often on sale for $129) from SnapStream SnapStream Store, you've got quite a nice little setup for under $250 that supports one television, and numerous computers doing playback.....
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Ahh, the PERQ. Good times.
Let us not forget KMS, a hyptertext system predating both "the WWW" and Apple's Hypercard.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0031.html
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/www/
Sorry to pour water on your flame, but....
OpenDNS *used to* have this problem..... I tried them originally and this was a non-started for me because of a VPN situation.
However, I recently tried it again, and they've added a feature to deal with this, you put in the domain for which you want them to return a failure (essentially), and it does! "Viola"....
Bullshit. The best programmers don't know if they're awesome. They just think everyone else is stupid.
Heh, then I MUST be F***ING BRILLIANT!
-Me
IIRC the latest version supports atomic operations on several platforms (including windows, AIX, solaris and linux, I believe). Commercial support agreements are also available, if you need that sort of thing.
Except that the bundled applications usually aren't just "user level" applications. MS is trying to lock things down more, one feature is on demand privilege elevation, but stuff that the vendor crams in probably didn't go through a "normal" installation process.
I was going to mention VideoReDo and BTY, but you folks already beat me too it.
There's also GB-PVR.....
But, if you distribute a program that runs on windows, and links to GPL'd libraries and is built with VisualStudio, do you have to provide a license to whomever wants one? I don't think so....
If so, you could state that any GPL'd project that distributes scripts to build with VisualStudio are already in violation.
> This is where the GPL gets tricky, but basically you don't have to license under GPL anything just for linking to a GPLed library or for using the output of a GPLed program. It's stated in the GNU GPL FAQ.
BZZZZZT! As near as I can tell, the above poster is completely wrong. If you *link* to a *GPL* (not LGPL) library, *AND* distribute your program in any way, it has just become GPL'd.
support for Windows, Linux, Mac, Palm, has versions for books, CDs, DVDs......
http://www.readerware.com/
yeah, yeah, ok, Crystal, not Crystial.
;>
Just Bite Me, OK?!?!?!
"You know, I really hate it when that happens."
(Think Billy Crystial in SNL circa 1978 or thereabouts)
Sort of true. Transarc was always funded and supported by IBM. It's just that in 1999 Transarcians started getting "blue" paychecks.....
Yep, thanksgiving is getting close, almost time to see if I can find my turntable, and if it still works......
Except that they bought tru-64 with Compaq (who got it from Dec), and then chose HP-UX because it was "technologically superior".
Yeah, Right.
*BZZZZZZZT*
Well, you don't have everything that I have, since I mentioned that my box served several other purposes as well. The box that I replaced with this new monster was an AMD XP 2900 with a gig or fam and 4 120gb drives. Quite a bit cheaper and good enough for quite a bit of use.
I've had this server running for more than two years, so I would have spent more on the guide than you calculated.
I have MUCH more storage that your setup, which is good because I'm building a big library of kids shows, which I keep "forever" as opposed to expiring things after I've watched them.
The reason I went to the trouble of putting all the specs in was so that people could see that by downsizing it just a bit, they could get it for much less. Guess I should have said that.
Except that you're proving my point. The post I was responding to was talking about why PC based DVR/PVRs are no good. I pointed out one reason why they are better than standalone ones. So, you are comparing a single stand alone DVR to the whole house networked DVR that is the entire premis of my post.
I never said do PC based if you're trying to get a single cheap solution. In that case, if you have a cable company that offers them, just get one from them, that's the cheapest.
Sure, why not backup to a stripe set? My other machines abckup to this machine in case of component failure/stupidity. Sure the stripe set isn't 100% reliable, but unless fire/flood/nuke takes out my whole house, I've still got the data.
Been using software stripe sets since windows NT first supported them. Never lost any data because of it (stupidity yes, to stripe failure, no).
wrong, wrong, wrong.
The power of a PC based DVR (I use BeyondTV myself even though I have a linux server in the house too), is not that you put one next to every TV. That would be "stupid". Instead, you put one in the basement where you don't care if it's noisy, then you put a $90 MediaMVP box from Hauppage on each TV, and wire it to a switch.
Compare that to putting a TIVO on 4 TV's, even if you get the box for free, it's $1200 for the lifetime guide access (which is free with BeyondTV), and then more money if you want the home networking option so that you can move programs from one TIVO to another.
Now, my setup cost more than $1200 (but not that much more), but then my BeyondTV machine is also my X-10 house controller machine, is a 3.2ghz p4 hyperthreaded with 1gb of 800mhz dual channel ram, a 100gb 7200rpm disk for the OS and 4 seagate ata133 7200rpm 300gb drives in a stripe set for the data volume. It's also my backup server. And I can watch any program from any TV in the house.
I've got right aroun $1500 in the machine, including the OS and software licenses and 4 MediaMVP boxes for a total cost (not including network switches, etc) of $1820 (I got a deal on the MVPs) for 4 TVs, and I could have another TV for free if I put the server next to a TV.
4 TIVOs would cost more like $2000 (200/box plus 300 guide fee) and would have a lot fewer features and much less storage, and some amount more for the networking option.
So....
Don't know if this is a troll or not, but Bugzilla is pretty flexible. If you want to have strict access controls on BZ based on the owner, you can (and I suspect that this is how the mozilla instance is configured, but I've never used it), but that's certainy not required.....
-Kelly
>SCO claims to have found internal IBM e-mails
>
>This is a form of espionage which is illegal >without a court order.
Umm, RTFA, dude:
SCO says it discovered the e-mails in a mountain of documents IBM produced in discovery related to SCO's lawsuit against IBM over the Linux operating system.
Unfortunately, the earlier 3ware cards won't allow you to build an array unless all the drive IDs match EXACTLY, meaning that this is not possible.
Hopefully, they've changed this for the newer 7 series cards, but the 5 series are 'broken' this way.
I was working as a consultant and had to take a trip out of town to setup a system. I put all the software on a SyQuest drive (made two copies), and since this was a SCSI drive, took my drive and SCSI card along with me. When I came home, I threw my dirty clothes in the washer, then dried them. When I took them out of the dryer, I found the SCSI card, sans the firmware chip. I stuck my head in the dryer with a flashlight, and found the chip stuck to the drum.
Straightened the pins on the chip, plugged it back into the card, put the card in my system, and "viola!", everything worked fine!
That's right, assembly isn't all that!
;>
learn microcode, then come and talk to me!!!!
(yeah, I'm old, so what!)
If you couple this with the WinTV-250btv/BeynondTV bundle for $139 (often on sale for $129) from SnapStream SnapStream Store, you've got quite a nice little setup for under $250 that supports one television, and numerous computers doing playback.....