Since we're on the subject, others have mentioned Nagios and MRTG of course. Be sure to check out JFFNMS (Just for fun). Horrible name for what it does, since it's quite powerful. For Big Brother users, I would recommend checking out Hobbit Monitor as a replacement of the server portion. It's compatible with the BB client, but has far more features and includes some basic MRTG graphs.
I have yet to find an all in one integrated open source solution for monitoring (cpu, processes, port reachability), alerts (email, sms, etc). The closest I've found is JFFNMS, but writing alert rules and such is difficult to say the least.
While on the subject, if it's not too terribly off-topic, what do people use to bill based on network usage (MRTG, RRD). Both claim that you should NOT bill off of that information, but I have yet to find any other open source solution.
What would prevent the installer to ask a question like: "Do you want the firewall to block outgoing traffic? Yes/No"
I was going to post the same thing. What gives with MS taking all options out of the installation process? Please give us some options back without having to create a scripted install, Microsoft.
CableCard = Cable. Literally Cable. Cable has been standardized now so that anyone can build a box, like this, and use it. CableCard essentially is just a "key" to decrypt channels, if your Cable Co is encrypthing things.
DirecTV/Dish Network use whatever they want for standards, they have *nothing* to do with cable, and CableCard.
tgd was really *hoping* you could figure this out based on the name. guess not.
No one and I mean NO ONE has even the slightest interest in the 360.
Does anyone in the group you speak of own an HDTV? Very few comments on this article mention it, but for non HDTV owners, an Xbox 360 will be fairly unattractive. They have said they will release a VGA cable, so that may please you.
I don't know why they don't have native HDMI support, but they don't.
I did play a little of the 360 at Best Buy, King Kong looked *very* impressive. Jack Black was eerily realistic. A few weeks ago my interest in it was "I'll wait for a modchip" but now I'm on a "ooh eye candy for my HDTV!" kick.
I don't know how many of you have HD sets, but this may be the main source of sales for this thing in the first year.
If you have a Java application server set up (like Tomcat - which can only take a few minutes to do)
Tomcat must have progressed quite a bit in the last 5 years then. I was supporting some jsp-writing devs on an Apache/Tomcat setup in 2000something, and even finding docs on the correct connector for the two, or even *choosing* from the 80 available connectors is a nightmare.
Yes, you could run Tomcat on port 80, with no Apache, but I seem to recall that Tomcat specifically leaves out much of the functionality that Apache does natively- perhaps lock something down by IP, etc.
Once you've gone through the nightmare of setting this up properly, you then get to learn Ant to make your WARs. While I did find Ant appealing/nice/whatever, it's quite a bit more complex than you're making it up to be to be serving up.jsp.
Compared to the horror that can be involved in compiling and configuring compatible versions of apache and php required for particular PHP applications, this is a dream.
Again, Tomcat must have come a long way since then, or you should be using FreeBSD.
Since it is supposed to be - quoting TFA - "backward compatible all the way to the original PlayStation" - it will be obviously possible. Backwards compatibility was the key factor for me to chose PS2 instead of XBox
What would the original Xbox be backwards compatible to? I'm sure there are lots of comments here about modding the Xbox already, but I'm quite happy that my Xbox is "backwards compatible" with perfect emulation of all 16-bit and earlier generation consoles/arcade games.
The grass in Tiger Woods '06 looked like a 3DFX Voodoo 1 texture blur-mess. Another game that they showed, and I don't know which, was running at about 15fps. This is what 3 * 3.2ghz) gets us?
Also, is it possible that this new box is even LARGER than the first?
You didn't say it directly, but it's worth bringing out: Stand-alone TiVo's record an analog signal, and digitize it and compress it itself.
In early 2006, a TiVo is coming outthat allows this. CableCARD is what you desire. A dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be released that will be compatible with all (U.S., not sure about the rest of you) cable/digital cable standards, QAM. I can't seem to dig up pictures of it now, but a prototype was shown at the most recent CES.
I'm sure that for these, the digital stream will be recorded directly to hard drive like the DirecTV units do. The current HD TiVo does with over-the-air ATSC broadcasts already.
Please stop spreading misinformation. HD-DVDs won't play on "the current installed base of DVD players." HD-DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are read with lasers at 405 nm; DVDs use lasers at 650 nm. Nevertheless both HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives can be made fully backwards compatible with DVDs.
Actually, you've got it backwards. You're stating that new DRIVES will be able to play old DISCS.
The HD-DVD gods are proposing that the new DISCS will be able to play on the old/existing DRIVES, by having a seperate SD DVD layer and HD DVD layer.
First off, It's not the TV that needs to be "built from kit", it's the tuner. Why try to build a projection device when it's likely much less expensive and simpler to just tune and strip broadcast flag from a signal?
That said-
Grill me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the Broadcast Flag is that it exists to prevent copyrighted material from being "ripped" to something such as a PC's hard drive.
I have an HDTV, and an HDTiVo. Both obey the broadcast flag and encryption (HDCP) via its digital interface- HDMI. When the FCC/whoever decides to "broadcast-flagamaphone" a show, I will see it just as it's intended, in all of its HD glory.
If however I were using the Component/Analog outputs from my tuner (TiVo), the broadcast flag will force the TiVo to downres it to 480p on the analog connections, but it may remain in 720p/1080i/1080p on its digital path.
Yes, very early HD adoptors with analog-only inputs will have to get new sets- but all sets prior to about 2 years ago didnt support 720P as n input or display format, so they're likely going to do this anyhow.
The Tivo has some other minor advantages. But since the main value of these things beyond recording is to skip commercials cleanly, quickly, efficiently, the Dish PVR wins
You're kidding, right? I got a Dish PVR when they were having a promo ($25). I wanted to compare it to my TiVo, and have the ability to output audio via optical.
The DishPVR doesn't even have a season pass. When I was watching a a few minutes behind "real time", when the Dish PVR has to record the next show, it would not allow me to continue watching my timeshifted show- it simply forces you to start watching the new program.
This also happened when I simply went into the MENU. (Similar to TiVo button).
It sounds like you use the DishPVR exclusively as a scrollback buffer, not to actually record any programming. My Dish PVR was back in the box in about an hour.
Without the ability to natively interface with proprietary cable and satellite providers TIVO is toast.
DirecTiVo handles this well for satellite (yes, it would be nicer if there were an open standard here and it would work well w/ competitors). Q4 this year/Q1 next year the dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be out. CableCARD's are required by law by cable providers (in the 'states) and allow you to tune into digital cable.
I got to spend a few weeks with this at my parents house over the holidays. They signed up for DISH through SBC in KS over DirecTV with TiVo.
They hate it, despise it, and think it's the most clunky hard to use thing ever
I'm a TiVo owner for years. A few months ago Dish Network had a "deal" to their current subscribers that offered their own PVR for $25 shipping + $5/month. Since their PVR has Optical out for Dolby Digital, I thought I'd give it a whirl.
Well, Dish Network's PVR is useless. You can't even go into the main menu without it stopping recording what you're watching. I had it plugged in for an hour and it went back in the box to be shipped back.
Dish Network also has their own brand of HD PVR, but I beleive it runs the same OS as above, and is pretty horrible.
If this 2wire box has season passes and works similarly to a TiVo, it could be a good thing. It would, however, need an ATSC tuner (or two) to "compete" with the HR10-250 DirecTV TiVo. Otherwise, there's no way to receive/record local channels in HD in the vast majority of markets in the US.
I got this on a few servers yesterday- first thought it was related to the < PHP 4.3.10 bugs- it's not.
This exploit is actually quite clever. It inputs values into the URL field that use the chr() function in PHP to pass text. It then writes its own perl script and executes it on the server.
I have a graphite-like theme in windows. All other windows apps inherit this- but no, not trillian.
Trillian FORCES you to use onf of their skins. There is no option to simply use the "skin" (or lack there of) that you are currently using, if you're using WinXP.
i've never watched this before, and now i'm realizing why. someone should have voiced over a hamster or a wombat or something, at least animals can move around more than video game characters who raise and lower their gun for minutes on end to simulate talking.... maybe i'm just old fashioned.
will require the case to be larger than something that clips on the back of an LCD panel. I personally have never bought an "entire computer". Everything PC has been in one way or another next to another component going back to an XT.
What happens to Apple when the form factor of computers get standardized and simplified to a point where there is simply no room for an industrial designer to work with?
- Hasn't the form factor of computers has been standardized for quite some time? - Doesn't the industrial designer MAKE the design?
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And I thought this was 24 hours with an older Mac. I would have been more interested in that..
Even better, there's a printable version.
Since we're on the subject, others have mentioned Nagios and MRTG of course. Be sure to check out JFFNMS (Just for fun). Horrible name for what it does, since it's quite powerful. For Big Brother users, I would recommend checking out Hobbit Monitor as a replacement of the server portion. It's compatible with the BB client, but has far more features and includes some basic MRTG graphs.
I have yet to find an all in one integrated open source solution for monitoring (cpu, processes, port reachability), alerts (email, sms, etc). The closest I've found is JFFNMS, but writing alert rules and such is difficult to say the least.
While on the subject, if it's not too terribly off-topic, what do people use to bill based on network usage (MRTG, RRD). Both claim that you should NOT bill off of that information, but I have yet to find any other open source solution.
--falz
What would prevent the installer to ask a question like: "Do you want the firewall to block outgoing traffic? Yes/No"
I was going to post the same thing. What gives with MS taking all options out of the installation process? Please give us some options back without having to create a scripted install, Microsoft.
--falz
Since BushCheney08 isn't getting it...
CableCard = Cable. Literally Cable. Cable has been standardized now so that anyone can build a box, like this, and use it. CableCard essentially is just a "key" to decrypt channels, if your Cable Co is encrypthing things.
DirecTV/Dish Network use whatever they want for standards, they have *nothing* to do with cable, and CableCard.
tgd was really *hoping* you could figure this out based on the name. guess not.
--falz
We can only hope that during an interview he'll proclaim "Whoooo wanta some Whang?!?"
--falz
No one and I mean NO ONE has even the slightest interest in the 360.
Does anyone in the group you speak of own an HDTV? Very few comments on this article mention it, but for non HDTV owners, an Xbox 360 will be fairly unattractive. They have said they will release a VGA cable, so that may please you.
I don't know why they don't have native HDMI support, but they don't.
I did play a little of the 360 at Best Buy, King Kong looked *very* impressive. Jack Black was eerily realistic. A few weeks ago my interest in it was "I'll wait for a modchip" but now I'm on a "ooh eye candy for my HDTV!" kick.
I don't know how many of you have HD sets, but this may be the main source of sales for this thing in the first year.
--falz
If you have a Java application server set up (like Tomcat - which can only take a few minutes to do)
.jsp.
Tomcat must have progressed quite a bit in the last 5 years then. I was supporting some jsp-writing devs on an Apache/Tomcat setup in 2000something, and even finding docs on the correct connector for the two, or even *choosing* from the 80 available connectors is a nightmare.
Yes, you could run Tomcat on port 80, with no Apache, but I seem to recall that Tomcat specifically leaves out much of the functionality that Apache does natively- perhaps lock something down by IP, etc.
Once you've gone through the nightmare of setting this up properly, you then get to learn Ant to make your WARs. While I did find Ant appealing/nice/whatever, it's quite a bit more complex than you're making it up to be to be serving up
Compared to the horror that can be involved in compiling and configuring compatible versions of apache and php required for particular PHP applications, this is a dream.
Again, Tomcat must have come a long way since then, or you should be using FreeBSD.
--falz
Since it is supposed to be - quoting TFA - "backward compatible all the way to the original PlayStation" - it will be obviously possible. Backwards compatibility was the key factor for me to chose PS2 instead of XBox
What would the original Xbox be backwards compatible to? I'm sure there are lots of comments here about modding the Xbox already, but I'm quite happy that my Xbox is "backwards compatible" with perfect emulation of all 16-bit and earlier generation consoles/arcade games.
--falz
The grass in Tiger Woods '06 looked like a 3DFX Voodoo 1 texture blur-mess. Another game that they showed, and I don't know which, was running at about 15fps. This is what 3 * 3.2ghz) gets us?
Also, is it possible that this new box is even LARGER than the first?
--falz
Isn't the real key to find out WHAT is spam? Are they just using a spam level from SpamAssassin and then DDoS'ing the sending IP?
I (and the world?) am more interested in what method they're using to decide its spam, instead of what they do with it after they make this decision.
--falz
You didn't say it directly, but it's worth bringing out: Stand-alone TiVo's record an analog signal, and digitize it and compress it itself.
In early 2006, a TiVo is coming out that allows this. CableCARD is what you desire. A dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be released that will be compatible with all (U.S., not sure about the rest of you) cable/digital cable standards, QAM. I can't seem to dig up pictures of it now, but a prototype was shown at the most recent CES.
I'm sure that for these, the digital stream will be recorded directly to hard drive like the DirecTV units do. The current HD TiVo does with over-the-air ATSC broadcasts already.
--falz
Please stop spreading misinformation. HD-DVDs won't play on "the current installed base of DVD players." HD-DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are read with lasers at 405 nm; DVDs use lasers at 650 nm. Nevertheless both HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives can be made fully backwards compatible with DVDs.
Actually, you've got it backwards. You're stating that new DRIVES will be able to play old DISCS.
The HD-DVD gods are proposing that the new DISCS will be able to play on the old/existing DRIVES, by having a seperate SD DVD layer and HD DVD layer.
--falz
First off, It's not the TV that needs to be "built from kit", it's the tuner. Why try to build a projection device when it's likely much less expensive and simpler to just tune and strip broadcast flag from a signal?
That said-
Grill me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the Broadcast Flag is that it exists to prevent copyrighted material from being "ripped" to something such as a PC's hard drive.
I have an HDTV, and an HDTiVo. Both obey the broadcast flag and encryption (HDCP) via its digital interface- HDMI. When the FCC/whoever decides to "broadcast-flagamaphone" a show, I will see it just as it's intended, in all of its HD glory.
If however I were using the Component/Analog outputs from my tuner (TiVo), the broadcast flag will force the TiVo to downres it to 480p on the analog connections, but it may remain in 720p/1080i/1080p on its digital path.
Yes, very early HD adoptors with analog-only inputs will have to get new sets- but all sets prior to about 2 years ago didnt support 720P as n input or display format, so they're likely going to do this anyhow.
So who's hurt here and what are we whining about?
--falz
So long as there are drivers for NICs and ATA/SCSI devices, I'm pretty sure Linux/*BSD/etc is sticking around.
--falz
Bump up the resolution to either 1280x720(p) or 1920x1080(i), and there's no real reason to buy a TV.
Sure, if you're nocturnal.
--falz
You're kidding, right? I got a Dish PVR when they were having a promo ($25). I wanted to compare it to my TiVo, and have the ability to output audio via optical.
The DishPVR doesn't even have a season pass. When I was watching a a few minutes behind "real time", when the Dish PVR has to record the next show, it would not allow me to continue watching my timeshifted show- it simply forces you to start watching the new program.
This also happened when I simply went into the MENU. (Similar to TiVo button).
It sounds like you use the DishPVR exclusively as a scrollback buffer, not to actually record any programming. My Dish PVR was back in the box in about an hour.
--falz
DirecTiVo handles this well for satellite (yes, it would be nicer if there were an open standard here and it would work well w/ competitors). Q4 this year/Q1 next year the dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be out. CableCARD's are required by law by cable providers (in the 'states) and allow you to tune into digital cable.
There ya go.
I'm a TiVo owner for years. A few months ago Dish Network had a "deal" to their current subscribers that offered their own PVR for $25 shipping + $5/month. Since their PVR has Optical out for Dolby Digital, I thought I'd give it a whirl.
Well, Dish Network's PVR is useless. You can't even go into the main menu without it stopping recording what you're watching. I had it plugged in for an hour and it went back in the box to be shipped back.
Dish Network also has their own brand of HD PVR, but I beleive it runs the same OS as above, and is pretty horrible.
If this 2wire box has season passes and works similarly to a TiVo, it could be a good thing. It would, however, need an ATSC tuner (or two) to "compete" with the HR10-250 DirecTV TiVo. Otherwise, there's no way to receive/record local channels in HD in the vast majority of markets in the US.
--falz
This exploit is actually quite clever. It inputs values into the URL field that use the chr() function in PHP to pass text. It then writes its own perl script and executes it on the server.
Here's the first line from the logfile:
If you decode the ascii characters, you get:
I didn't have enough freetime to decode the whole thing due to.. actual work having to be done, but it's quite clever.
--falz
I have a graphite-like theme in windows. All other windows apps inherit this- but no, not trillian.
Trillian FORCES you to use onf of their skins. There is no option to simply use the "skin" (or lack there of) that you are currently using, if you're using WinXP.
teh sux.
--falz
Here you go.
Probably sold 'em seperately since they're actually worth something.
But, he's got no Sega Master System either. He's not l33t.
--falz
I disagree. Those of us who actually add peripherals to our computers, such as..
- Multiple optical drives
- Multiple hard drives
- Expansion cards
will require the case to be larger than something that clips on the back of an LCD panel. I personally have never bought an "entire computer". Everything PC has been in one way or another next to another component going back to an XT.
- Hasn't the form factor of computers has been standardized for quite some time?
- Doesn't the industrial designer MAKE the design?
Hmm. The ad on the right of this page is promoting these books:
I'm sure this site is very "relaible".
--falz