SCSI used to have a definate edge, but advances in IDE technology, especially as soon as IDE RAID started becoming common have led to SCSI more or less disappearing from all but server systems.
My editing/compositing system at home runs 400gb of storage, with a meager 160gb of that on the IDE raid array. It has performed absolutely flawlessly with no downtime and no corrupted files inspite of over a year of 24/7 power-on time. When I was looking at integrating a SCSI RAID array at the same time, it would've easily cost 3 to 4 times as much.
Easy decision. The imminent release of dirt-cheap hot-swap IDE raid controllers is only going to drive another nail into the SCSI coffin.
Just got an official email back from TechTV Canada.
Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding TechTV.
Unfortunately, Max Headroom is not available for broadcast on TechTV in Canada. TechTV strives to provide the best programming available to our Canadian audience according to the license that was granted by the CRTC. Our license does not permit us to air programs such as Max Headroom.
Time to buy that grey-market satellite dish and go with US programming my fellow Canadians! End the censorship!
They're correct, in part, about the usage of new media technologies to move information in ways that companies hadn't considered in the past. Sure someone could pop in with a USB-keychain device and copy company secrets, however if someone REALLY wants to copy/duplicate materials, there are a million different ways to do it and bypass typical security precautions.
If I was travelling with confidential data to any country which I was at all wary about, sure, I'd hide my data on a smartmedia card for my digital camera, or for large amounts, hide it on my nomad jukebox rather than putting it on an encrypted file on the laptop - if they don't know it's there, they can't ask/force you to decode it can they? Likewise for "copying secrets" from a job - anyone with half a clue would use something a little less obvious than walking out the front door with a burned CD if they were at all worried about getting caught.
By far the larger issue (IMHO) is typical "stupid company workers". I've lost track of how many times my co-workers have forwarded bogus virus notification emails, emails with annoying executable christmas crap, and other assorted garbage to me.
That's the sort of thing that needs to be "fixed" IMHO. Granted, a disgruntled employee can do a lot of short-term damage, but typical bumbling employees can do enough minor damage spread out over a long term to cost more in terms of support hours and money.
I have my own EULA on my own machine! It goes something like this:
"The software you are about to install on my machine is utilizing MY system resources, MY electrical power, and will reside in space in MY household.
I have the right to do whatever I want to, with, or on anything I install in, or on the computer that I paid for.
I have the right to reverse engineer, disassemble, or modify any piece of code or hardware that I have purchased or downloaded.
I have the right to delete any software or filter any website which infringes upon my right to use the system I paid for however I choose.
You as an author have the right to not to make software that I am interested in installing, purchasing, or downloading, and therefore will not be subject to these EULA terms."
Now I just have to make a quick program to pop it up before any new software installs, and I'm covered!
In other words, if you don't want to see spoilers, don't check web-board postings when something you're anticipating is coming up as there will always be someone too stupid to put proper spoiler warnings on posts.
Of course this posting should've been pulled as soon as it occured to the staff that it WAS legitimately spoiling the episode for west-coasters. That it wasn't is an indication of how/. management views the readers of their site.
Which would be why I'm declaring a personal/. moratorium a week or so before SW2 time. Don't need some twit posting a big spoiler ahead of seeing the movie.
I thought this sounds more like a case of misconfiguration than a bad server itself.
Also, assuming that people are DHCP'ing on a local 192.168.* address space, shouldn't upstream routers (especially those on cable companies and the like) automatically filter out any packets with local addressing as opposed to forwarding them?
Infact you'd think they'd filter out ANY DHCP information coming from their subscribers as opposed to sending it out publically?
Yup, join the party - 400 gigs here and I still need more. DVD authoring, HD Film work, graphics post, you name it.
Thankfully though, it's on my own machine at home due to the falling price of technology, both hardware and software. I can work at home with the music cranked up, without people bugging me, and get stuff finished faster than in an office.
Then just pop in the 80 or 160gb removable IDE drive to drop the files on and courier them back to the client or the post-house. Great stuff, this cheap storage.
But I could still easily use 1tb or more of space to allow me to work on larger sequences, store more video, etc.
One of the great uses of this amount of space that the author suggests is something like completely capturing an entire digital sat/cable stream.
No more "using the VCR" to tape the show you're going to miss, but storing an entire weeks' worth of programming or more. Don't have to worry about missing something because you've got the entire broadcast from every channel archived and ready to watch.
That would be cool. A "central multimedia server" [like central heating?] that would store every TV program received, every radio station programmed, every CD I buy [ya, really!], every DVD I own, etc. Great use for nearly unlimited storage.
I'm sure that the old folks at the MPAA/RIAA are going into panic-mode even THINKING about that sort of idea, but it's the future folks, deal with it.
Maybe I patched it somewhere with one of the numerous bugfixes out there, but when I try this exploit, it pops up an ActiveX security warning and refuses to execute the exploit.
Of course, this may be due to a 3rd party security patch that I saw on a website as opposed to an official MS one?
Interestingly enough, I wasn't expecting ANY connection when I clicked on the link to the server itself, and I actually got a page returned to me!
I suppose it's possible that it was cached somewhere in transit, but still mighty impressive that a C64 webserver could even manage to return one page while being/.'ed.
I'd be curious if anyone has really evaluated how much traffic a./'ing generates - what kind of system and how much bandwidth do you need to be able to cope with it?
Just a quick commentary, I've never had problems with Purolator.
Easily the best courier I've used compared to UPS (expensive "handling fees", poor service), and FedEx (reasonable service, but still very expensive and extra handling fees).
I loved that game, spent hours on Wizardry 1, Bard's Tale, etc.
Still sometimes fire up the Apple// emulator to play some 40 column Wizardry... Fun stuff;P
Even today, when I make characters on Diablo 2, and the most modern games, I still use character names that I created for my original Wizardry characters!
This isn't rocket-science, you can do this stuff already if you have the proper DVD authoring software. No need for strange authoring software or dedicated players.
Depending on the player's parental content lock (can be checked within the title), force a subtitle display that you can't turn off by remote (part of the spec, easy to do), but make it a solid graphic "block" to obscure the naughty bits of whatever is on screen.
Likewise force a seperate audio track with the words bleeped out, silenced, or a "PG" audio track. Also easy.
Requires no additional software, compatible with every player out there, and anyone with decent authoring software could whip this up in no-time.
Slashdot Mirror
There's some great stuff on that site. I especially like the wasp-sucker, and the marble machines.
I figure I'm not alone in liking this kind of stuff...
Infact, the site is already getting slower and slower... Slashdot effect...
Since they can't compete on the hardware side, they purchase popular software packages and then restrict them to non-windows operating systems.
See Spruce DVD Maestro for another example.
"If you want to use the software, you have to work on an Apple".
Nice.
I used to have a bit of respect for Apple, but this sort of predatory software practise even puts MS to shame.
SCSI used to have a definate edge, but advances in IDE technology, especially as soon as IDE RAID started becoming common have led to SCSI more or less disappearing from all but server systems.
My editing/compositing system at home runs 400gb of storage, with a meager 160gb of that on the IDE raid array. It has performed absolutely flawlessly with no downtime and no corrupted files inspite of over a year of 24/7 power-on time. When I was looking at integrating a SCSI RAID array at the same time, it would've easily cost 3 to 4 times as much.
Easy decision. The imminent release of dirt-cheap hot-swap IDE raid controllers is only going to drive another nail into the SCSI coffin.
Time to buy that grey-market satellite dish and go with US programming my fellow Canadians! End the censorship!
Well said!
They're correct, in part, about the usage of new media technologies to move information in ways that companies hadn't considered in the past. Sure someone could pop in with a USB-keychain device and copy company secrets, however if someone REALLY wants to copy/duplicate materials, there are a million different ways to do it and bypass typical security precautions.
If I was travelling with confidential data to any country which I was at all wary about, sure, I'd hide my data on a smartmedia card for my digital camera, or for large amounts, hide it on my nomad jukebox rather than putting it on an encrypted file on the laptop - if they don't know it's there, they can't ask/force you to decode it can they? Likewise for "copying secrets" from a job - anyone with half a clue would use something a little less obvious than walking out the front door with a burned CD if they were at all worried about getting caught.
By far the larger issue (IMHO) is typical "stupid company workers". I've lost track of how many times my co-workers have forwarded bogus virus notification emails, emails with annoying executable christmas crap, and other assorted garbage to me.
That's the sort of thing that needs to be "fixed" IMHO. Granted, a disgruntled employee can do a lot of short-term damage, but typical bumbling employees can do enough minor damage spread out over a long term to cost more in terms of support hours and money.
I have my own EULA on my own machine! It goes something like this:
"The software you are about to install on my machine is utilizing MY system resources, MY electrical power, and will reside in space in MY household.
I have the right to do whatever I want to, with, or on anything I install in, or on the computer that I paid for.
I have the right to reverse engineer, disassemble, or modify any piece of code or hardware that I have purchased or downloaded.
I have the right to delete any software or filter any website which infringes upon my right to use the system I paid for however I choose.
You as an author have the right to not to make software that I am interested in installing, purchasing, or downloading, and therefore will not be subject to these EULA terms."
Now I just have to make a quick program to pop it up before any new software installs, and I'm covered!
...To fool the Mac Zealots club into thinking I had defected to the dark side or something...
"Ah HA! Is that a Mac I see on your Desk!? FINALLY saw the light, did you?"
"Oh, yes indeed I did, now go away while I play some Dungeon Siege on it".
By brand name, they mean "the name by which we are trying to find investors".
It's not hurting their "name" any, but it's putting a serious dent in their "profitability".
Good.
Hmm... A quote I've heard somewhere...
/. management views the readers of their site.
/. moratorium a week or so before SW2 time. Don't need some twit posting a big spoiler ahead of seeing the movie.
"Trust no-one" (especially "news" sites).
In other words, if you don't want to see spoilers, don't check web-board postings when something you're anticipating is coming up as there will always be someone too stupid to put proper spoiler warnings on posts.
Of course this posting should've been pulled as soon as it occured to the staff that it WAS legitimately spoiling the episode for west-coasters. That it wasn't is an indication of how
Which would be why I'm declaring a personal
Sure, but what they'd say is something to the effect of "the license fee is $0.01 - the other $14.99 is for media and shipping and handling".
But I tend to agree - if I purchase something, it's MINE, regardless of what the "license" says, and I can do what I want with it.
I thought this sounds more like a case of misconfiguration than a bad server itself.
Also, assuming that people are DHCP'ing on a local 192.168.* address space, shouldn't upstream routers (especially those on cable companies and the like) automatically filter out any packets with local addressing as opposed to forwarding them?
Infact you'd think they'd filter out ANY DHCP information coming from their subscribers as opposed to sending it out publically?
Oh yes, I've noticed and been having a good little chuckle at this one too.
Poor poor Kazaa... Someone has hacked their precious little client to take out the advertising...
...So they're not making any money...
...So they're thinking of lawsuits...
...Just like the RIAA...
...They're powerless to stop it!
Money makes the world go 'round, it makes the world go 'round...
Yup, join the party - 400 gigs here and I still need more. DVD authoring, HD Film work, graphics post, you name it.
Thankfully though, it's on my own machine at home due to the falling price of technology, both hardware and software. I can work at home with the music cranked up, without people bugging me, and get stuff finished faster than in an office.
Then just pop in the 80 or 160gb removable IDE drive to drop the files on and courier them back to the client or the post-house. Great stuff, this cheap storage.
But I could still easily use 1tb or more of space to allow me to work on larger sequences, store more video, etc.
One of the great uses of this amount of space that the author suggests is something like completely capturing an entire digital sat/cable stream.
No more "using the VCR" to tape the show you're going to miss, but storing an entire weeks' worth of programming or more. Don't have to worry about missing something because you've got the entire broadcast from every channel archived and ready to watch.
That would be cool. A "central multimedia server" [like central heating?] that would store every TV program received, every radio station programmed, every CD I buy [ya, really!], every DVD I own, etc. Great use for nearly unlimited storage.
I'm sure that the old folks at the MPAA/RIAA are going into panic-mode even THINKING about that sort of idea, but it's the future folks, deal with it.
Maybe I patched it somewhere with one of the numerous bugfixes out there, but when I try this exploit, it pops up an ActiveX security warning and refuses to execute the exploit.
Of course, this may be due to a 3rd party security patch that I saw on a website as opposed to an official MS one?
Interestingly enough, I wasn't expecting ANY connection when I clicked on the link to the server itself, and I actually got a page returned to me!
/.'ed.
./'ing generates - what kind of system and how much bandwidth do you need to be able to cope with it?
I suppose it's possible that it was cached somewhere in transit, but still mighty impressive that a C64 webserver could even manage to return one page while being
I'd be curious if anyone has really evaluated how much traffic a
N.
Just a quick commentary, I've never had problems with Purolator.
Easily the best courier I've used compared to UPS (expensive "handling fees", poor service), and FedEx (reasonable service, but still very expensive and extra handling fees).
USPS has worked flawlessly for me every time.
N.
Lomilwa and Tiltowait... Still the classics.
;P
// emulator to play some 40 column Wizardry... Fun stuff ;P
(along with WizFix)
I loved that game, spent hours on Wizardry 1, Bard's Tale, etc.
Still sometimes fire up the Apple
Even today, when I make characters on Diablo 2, and the most modern games, I still use character names that I created for my original Wizardry characters!
This isn't rocket-science, you can do this stuff already if you have the proper DVD authoring software. No need for strange authoring software or dedicated players.
Depending on the player's parental content lock (can be checked within the title), force a subtitle display that you can't turn off by remote (part of the spec, easy to do), but make it a solid graphic "block" to obscure the naughty bits of whatever is on screen.
Likewise force a seperate audio track with the words bleeped out, silenced, or a "PG" audio track. Also easy.
Requires no additional software, compatible with every player out there, and anyone with decent authoring software could whip this up in no-time.