It's actually a fairly modern idea to have the same key fit both the ignition switch and the car doors.
If by "modern" you mean they were doing it in the 90's, I guess.
It wasn't until 2002 that I had something that only took one key. Two keys was standard practice before then. Hell, the previous owner rekeyed the trunk on my '77 Cutlass so it needs three keys, but that's definitely atypical.
Optical discs aren't a proper backup either unless you store them offsite...
...which is exactly what I do. I have close to 200 BD-Rs in a binder in my desk at work. They hold 20 GB each, with the remaining space used for dvdisaster error recovery. I knocked together a script to pack as many files onto each disc as will fit. The scripts themselves (and the database they use) also get backed up offsite, to a VPS.
It (and the PVR-250/350/500) also works well under Linux, either 32- or 64-bit. I used these for a few years with MythTV. I think I still have a PVR-250 in this computer, but haven't used it in ages. I'm ripping a bunch of DVDs and SVCDs to my server before I unload them; if I have any tapes that haven't been superseded by some newer source, maybe I'll rip those next. I think the last time I used this card was for a PAL-VHS to NTSC-DVD conversion...that was interesting.
This would be great for NAS if they make motherboards with a large number of SATA ports.
This. In my home server, I have an A4 on one of these, which has six SATA ports. It's probably about as fast as the Core 2 Duo that was in it previously, it uses not much power at all (though probably still more than these new chips), and I think I didn't spend much more than $70 or so for the CPU and motherboard. I'm currently using one port for the boot drive and three for the data drives (JBOD with Greyhole). That gives me 7.5 TB, with selectable redundancy so a drive failure doesn't kill my docs or photos (video and music can be restored from BD-R), and I still have two ports available before I need to add a card.
Just remember to deduct that $100 next year (for those that don't know, tax prep fees are deductible).
Not always. Tax-prep fees go in a part of Schedule A for which there's a minimum you have to meet (2% of adjusted gross income) before you can deduct anything. The $500+ my wife and I forked over to H&R Block last year? Not deductible.:-P
OTOH, I was able to do my own filing this year by looking at what forms had been generated last year and making changes where appropriate. I grabbed the fillable forms from the IRS website, filled them in with Okular, printed them out, stapled our W-2s to them, and stuffed them into an envelope. Since we still owed money (less than $100 this year, vs. $3000+ last year...w00t!), I don't care how long it takes for the mail to get through and for the IRS to do its processing.
I think the point is that Visual Studio encourages programmers to code to APIs available only on Windows. Pretty much every time I've tried to load a.NET application in Mono, the application has stopped with an error that a particular system library is unavailable.
You might not have everything installed properly. I wanted to bring this up on a Raspberry Pi recently. The first attempt at running it failed an error regarding missing assemblies, or something to that effect. sudo apt-get install mono-complete fixed that.
If you had donated at some point in the past, it looks like you get grandfathered in. From the email they sent me:
In an effort to better service our customers through increased support and a cleaner network, Dyn announced that in the next 30 days, we will no longer be supporting free hostnames. However, because you believed in us and supported this company through your donations, we are continuing to fulfill our promise to you: your service is still free for life.
I donated somewhere around $10-$20 once, probably at least a decade ago.
This produces output too large to fit on most screens unless your console font is ridiculously small or your screen resolution is higher than most (my notebook has a 15" 1680x1050 panel). Also, it appears the console (on Ubuntu, anyway) doesn't handle UTF-8. Falling back to ANSI, it's even farther from being feasible.
Remember the blue ethernet cables with the red cable boots?
Most of the premade crossover cables I've run across have been orange. (The ones I've made as I needed them would've been whatever color was in the nearest box of bulk cable, but that doesn't count.)
Other than bitcoins, are other virtual coins worthless?
Mining many scrypt altcoins and immediately trading them for Bitcoin can net 40-50x or more what the same hardware would deliver mining for Bitcoin directly. CoinChoose will show you what's most profitable. You can set up CryptoSwitcher (disclaimer: I'm a contributor) to manage pool switching and exchange operations, or you can mine someplace like WeMineAll that manages all of that for you.
Another one I've run across lately is Zinc. I'm testing it out with a hard drive I needed to replace a bad drive in my media server. In addition to allowing you to pay with Bitcoin (or Dwolla, if that's your bag), it'll shop your purchase around among other vendors for a better deal. I put the order together on Amazon (which which I could've used Gyft, and have done so in the past), but they ended up placing the order with Newegg instead (for which there isn't otherwise a way to pay with Bitcoin) to knock a few dollars off. It's supposed to arrive tomorrow...we'll see.
With a trade-off of about 3-5 times the processing power required to decode. I learned that the hard way when trying to play movies on my old netbook with an Atom N270.
That's why you offload video decoding to the GPU. A weedy Atom 230 (or even the ARM-compatible core in a Raspberry Pi) is more than up to the task of shoveling 1080p H.264 into the GPU, which handles decoding, scaling, etc. Even the lowest-end nVidia or AMD GPUs are more than up to the task. I have OpenELEC running on an Acer Aspire Revo and a Raspberry Pi, and neither have any issues with anything I've thrown at them. (A third box runs on a Core 2 Duo E8400, which would be sufficient for software decoding of just about anything, but a GeForce 210 uses less power (fanless heatsink!) and adds HDMI output.)
What's that? Your netbook doesn't have a proper GPU? Well, isn't that special?:-P
RAID-5 uses up 1 disk worth for striping, so net space in an 8-drive array is 7-drives worth (about 27TB using 4TB drives). The problem with RAID-5 is that you are 2 disks away from failure and rebuilds often kill the disks.
RAID-6 uses 2 disks worth for striping, so net space in an 8-drive array is 6-drives worth (about 23TB using 4TB drives). Is able to survive a double-disk failure before data loss. Still has some of the same issues as RAID-5.
I use Greyhole for media and document storage. It handles disks of unequal size (currently running one 3TB and two 1.5TB drives), and you can choose the level of redundancy you need. In my case, movies, TV shows, etc. get a single copy (one file exists on one drive), while documents and photos get two copies (one file exists on two drives). If a drive goes bad, you only lose the files on that drive...and only for the files for which you selected no redundancy. With redundancy, extra file copies are recreated on the remaining drives from the surviving copies; this process is most likely less stressful on the disk set than a RAID rebuild.
My movies, TV shows, and music are backed up to BD-R, stored in a binder at work. They hold ~20GB each, as I'm using dvdisaster to guard against media errors. When a 2TB drive failed, I brought the backup (currently about 190 discs) home and restored the files that had gone missing. Backup and restore are managed by scripts, with information about what files are on what discs held in a MySQL database that gets periodically backed up off-site as well. The initial backup took several months (on and off) to finish, and the last time I needed to restore, it took about a week, but now I just burn a disc when I have about enough new data to fill one. Burning and verifying takes a few hours, but it's something you can start and walk away.
Personally, I'm a little disappointed with Apple's system. First, it's not wireless
I don't see the wired connection as a problem. You need to plug something into your phone anyway to keep it charged on a long trip (especially if you're streaming your music collection), so you might as well route whatever data this thing needs over that connection.
And this is why I bought a double edge razor handle.
Right around the time I was considering making the switch, Woot was offering Mach3-compatible cartridges at somewhere near a dollar each for a dozen. Considering that the "genuine" cartridges usually sell for 3-4x more, that was a good-enough savings for now, and so far they've mostly gotten the job done. (The springs in one crapped out after only one or two uses.)
When you pay at least $18,000 for a car, spending less than $150 for an OBDII reader that can be used on any car is, well, something you should have no problems doing.
You don't even have to spend that much. A Bluetooth OBD-II dongle will set you back maybe $20, and you can use any computer, Android device, or jailbroken iOS device to talk to it.
I've never come across a hard drive with a stepper motor actuated arm. Care to cite a model number for me?
I'm pretty sure the Seagate ST225 I once had in an IBM PC/XT used a stepper motor to move the heads. Voice-coil actuators only came on the scene sometime in the late '80s or so.
Do ya'll buy commercial NAS systems, or does anyone here do the FreeNAS type thing as a full custom solution?
I'm running Greyhole on my home server. It aggregates storage across multiple (possibly dissimilar) drives in one or more pools. You can set varying levels of redundancy for each pool; you can have two (or more) copies of documents so that they're safe in case of drive failure, while disabling it for your video library (which is OK if you have it backed up). You can pull a drive out of a Greyhole box and access the files written to it.
I've had a disk fail recently, and another was on its way out (smartctl reported it had no more replacements for bad blocks). In the latter case, migrating data off the old drive onto a new one was easy. The other drive failed outright. My documents and photos were all safe. Some video and music files needed to be restored from backup...a minor pain. Overall, I think it's worked "as advertised" and would recommend it to others.
Disney and Warner Brothers ("Maverick") jump-started the infant ABC television network. Disney's move to NBC and color production rocketed sales of color TV sets.
ABC was spun out of NBC because the government believed NBC (owned at the time by RCA) was getting too big.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had, since its creation in 1934, investigated the monopolistic effects of network broadcasting. The FCC found that NBC's two networks and its owned-and-operated stations dominated audiences, affiliates and advertising in American radio. In 1939, the FCC ordered RCA to divest itself of one of the two networks. RCA fought the divestiture order, but in 1940 divided NBC into two companies in case an appeal was lost. The Blue Network became NBC Blue Network, Inc. and NBC Red became NBC Red Network, Inc. Both networks formally divorced operations on January 8, 1942, and the Blue Network was referred to on the air as either Blue or Blue Network, with official corporate name Blue Network Company, Inc. NBC Red, on the air, became known simply as NBC.
After losing its final appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1943, RCA sold Blue Network Company, Inc., for $8 million to Life Savers magnate Edward J. Noble, completing the sale on October 12, 1943. Noble got the network name, leases on land-lines and the New York studios; two-and-a half stations (WJZ in Newark/New York; KGO in San Francisco, and WENR in Chicago, which shared a frequency with Prairie Farmer station WLS); and about 60 affiliates. Noble wanted a better name for the network and in 1944 acquired the rights to the name "American Broadcasting Company" from George Storer. The Blue Network became ABC officially on June 15, 1945, after the sale was completed.
Di$ney acquired ABC sometime in the '90s IIRC, decades later.
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It wasn't until 2002 that I had something that only took one key. Two keys was standard practice before then. Hell, the previous owner rekeyed the trunk on my '77 Cutlass so it needs three keys, but that's definitely atypical.
Now get off my lawn!
...which is exactly what I do. I have close to 200 BD-Rs in a binder in my desk at work. They hold 20 GB each, with the remaining space used for dvdisaster error recovery. I knocked together a script to pack as many files onto each disc as will fit. The scripts themselves (and the database they use) also get backed up offsite, to a VPS.
It (and the PVR-250/350/500) also works well under Linux, either 32- or 64-bit. I used these for a few years with MythTV. I think I still have a PVR-250 in this computer, but haven't used it in ages. I'm ripping a bunch of DVDs and SVCDs to my server before I unload them; if I have any tapes that haven't been superseded by some newer source, maybe I'll rip those next. I think the last time I used this card was for a PAL-VHS to NTSC-DVD conversion...that was interesting.
This. In my home server, I have an A4 on one of these, which has six SATA ports. It's probably about as fast as the Core 2 Duo that was in it previously, it uses not much power at all (though probably still more than these new chips), and I think I didn't spend much more than $70 or so for the CPU and motherboard. I'm currently using one port for the boot drive and three for the data drives (JBOD with Greyhole). That gives me 7.5 TB, with selectable redundancy so a drive failure doesn't kill my docs or photos (video and music can be restored from BD-R), and I still have two ports available before I need to add a card.
Meat doesn't lead to gynecomastia, either, unlike soy protein.
Not always. Tax-prep fees go in a part of Schedule A for which there's a minimum you have to meet (2% of adjusted gross income) before you can deduct anything. The $500+ my wife and I forked over to H&R Block last year? Not deductible. :-P
OTOH, I was able to do my own filing this year by looking at what forms had been generated last year and making changes where appropriate. I grabbed the fillable forms from the IRS website, filled them in with Okular, printed them out, stapled our W-2s to them, and stuffed them into an envelope. Since we still owed money (less than $100 this year, vs. $3000+ last year...w00t!), I don't care how long it takes for the mail to get through and for the IRS to do its processing.
The first attempt at running it failed with an error...
You might not have everything installed properly. I wanted to bring this up on a Raspberry Pi recently. The first attempt at running it failed an error regarding missing assemblies, or something to that effect. sudo apt-get install mono-complete fixed that.
If you had donated at some point in the past, it looks like you get grandfathered in. From the email they sent me:
I donated somewhere around $10-$20 once, probably at least a decade ago.
This produces output too large to fit on most screens unless your console font is ridiculously small or your screen resolution is higher than most (my notebook has a 15" 1680x1050 panel). Also, it appears the console (on Ubuntu, anyway) doesn't handle UTF-8. Falling back to ANSI, it's even farther from being feasible.
Most of the premade crossover cables I've run across have been orange. (The ones I've made as I needed them would've been whatever color was in the nearest box of bulk cable, but that doesn't count.)
This. :-(
Mining many scrypt altcoins and immediately trading them for Bitcoin can net 40-50x or more what the same hardware would deliver mining for Bitcoin directly. CoinChoose will show you what's most profitable. You can set up CryptoSwitcher (disclaimer: I'm a contributor) to manage pool switching and exchange operations, or you can mine someplace like WeMineAll that manages all of that for you.
It could hardly be much worse than basing your retirement plans on Social Security. :-P
Another one I've run across lately is Zinc. I'm testing it out with a hard drive I needed to replace a bad drive in my media server. In addition to allowing you to pay with Bitcoin (or Dwolla, if that's your bag), it'll shop your purchase around among other vendors for a better deal. I put the order together on Amazon (which which I could've used Gyft, and have done so in the past), but they ended up placing the order with Newegg instead (for which there isn't otherwise a way to pay with Bitcoin) to knock a few dollars off. It's supposed to arrive tomorrow...we'll see.
That's why you offload video decoding to the GPU. A weedy Atom 230 (or even the ARM-compatible core in a Raspberry Pi) is more than up to the task of shoveling 1080p H.264 into the GPU, which handles decoding, scaling, etc. Even the lowest-end nVidia or AMD GPUs are more than up to the task. I have OpenELEC running on an Acer Aspire Revo and a Raspberry Pi, and neither have any issues with anything I've thrown at them. (A third box runs on a Core 2 Duo E8400, which would be sufficient for software decoding of just about anything, but a GeForce 210 uses less power (fanless heatsink!) and adds HDMI output.)
What's that? Your netbook doesn't have a proper GPU? Well, isn't that special? :-P
I use Greyhole for media and document storage. It handles disks of unequal size (currently running one 3TB and two 1.5TB drives), and you can choose the level of redundancy you need. In my case, movies, TV shows, etc. get a single copy (one file exists on one drive), while documents and photos get two copies (one file exists on two drives). If a drive goes bad, you only lose the files on that drive...and only for the files for which you selected no redundancy. With redundancy, extra file copies are recreated on the remaining drives from the surviving copies; this process is most likely less stressful on the disk set than a RAID rebuild.
My movies, TV shows, and music are backed up to BD-R, stored in a binder at work. They hold ~20GB each, as I'm using dvdisaster to guard against media errors. When a 2TB drive failed, I brought the backup (currently about 190 discs) home and restored the files that had gone missing. Backup and restore are managed by scripts, with information about what files are on what discs held in a MySQL database that gets periodically backed up off-site as well. The initial backup took several months (on and off) to finish, and the last time I needed to restore, it took about a week, but now I just burn a disc when I have about enough new data to fill one. Burning and verifying takes a few hours, but it's something you can start and walk away.
I don't see the wired connection as a problem. You need to plug something into your phone anyway to keep it charged on a long trip (especially if you're streaming your music collection), so you might as well route whatever data this thing needs over that connection.
Right around the time I was considering making the switch, Woot was offering Mach3-compatible cartridges at somewhere near a dollar each for a dozen. Considering that the "genuine" cartridges usually sell for 3-4x more, that was a good-enough savings for now, and so far they've mostly gotten the job done. (The springs in one crapped out after only one or two uses.)
It won't buy that many. Last time I took a cab home from the airport, it was about $50. That would only be about 20 trips.
You don't even have to spend that much. A Bluetooth OBD-II dongle will set you back maybe $20, and you can use any computer, Android device, or jailbroken iOS device to talk to it.
Like Venezuela? How's socialism working out for them, idiot?
I'm pretty sure the Seagate ST225 I once had in an IBM PC/XT used a stepper motor to move the heads. Voice-coil actuators only came on the scene sometime in the late '80s or so.
Do ya'll buy commercial NAS systems, or does anyone here do the FreeNAS type thing as a full custom solution?
I'm running Greyhole on my home server. It aggregates storage across multiple (possibly dissimilar) drives in one or more pools. You can set varying levels of redundancy for each pool; you can have two (or more) copies of documents so that they're safe in case of drive failure, while disabling it for your video library (which is OK if you have it backed up). You can pull a drive out of a Greyhole box and access the files written to it.
I've had a disk fail recently, and another was on its way out (smartctl reported it had no more replacements for bad blocks). In the latter case, migrating data off the old drive onto a new one was easy. The other drive failed outright. My documents and photos were all safe. Some video and music files needed to be restored from backup...a minor pain. Overall, I think it's worked "as advertised" and would recommend it to others.
ABC was spun out of NBC because the government believed NBC (owned at the time by RCA) was getting too big.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC#Red_and_Blue_Networks
Di$ney acquired ABC sometime in the '90s IIRC, decades later.