This is the software I use. It is another that is windows based, it supports all the major cards. It can also do some limited commercial skipping, and can transcode the recordings into other formats and sizes. The best part is you can log into their programming services http://www.snapstream.net from any computer and schedule your PC to record something. You can also see what you are scheduled to record along with what you have recorded via a webinterface from anywhere also. I guess that is standard anymore though as is the ability to watch live TV over the net as well.
Actually for corporate / enterprise level workstations acrobat, java, flash and everything along those lines are essential for the freeflow of information through a company.
The first mini-series has been released in a 2 DVD set. Just check your local video store or your favorite online retailer *cough* DVD Empire *cough*;) Always go for the wide screen directors cut.
if that line doesn't make you skeptical, I don't know what does. Is the power company trying to earn itself some Karma, or else these poor rural folk might use the OTHER available power company? Hmmmmm, call me a skeptic.
automag this is because the power company has a natural monopoly over the industry and is thus controlled by the government to ensure that they aren't gouging the customers. The reason that this type of monopoly is allowed to exist is the simple fact that you don't want to have 20 sets of power lines for different companies in one location. I am forced to think back to my economics classes where we were shown pictures of New York City with hundreds of different phone lines going down the streets and across the buildings.
but this article isn't directed at poor rural folk that only have one choice in everything. this is directed at small towns that could benefit from a little competition.
There are many of these systems in place today, not only are they offering cable tv and internet but phone service as well. Glasgow was the model town for motorola to try out some of the new technology. Murray, KY was their next stop and they have come along way in the last two years since the initial install was made. Here is a link to the hardware used. http://broadband.motorola.com/catalog/productdetai l.asp?ProductID=211
I pay about $20 a month for phone service with callerid, call waiting, etc. Another $27 for extended basic cable which is about 70 channels and then $19 for internet access. If I were to go with the competeing companies in town I would be paying $40 a month for cable an additional $40 for cable modem service through them, *ahem* charter *ahem* overpriced *ahem*, plus a phone line and long distance through bellsouth, at least $30 before caller id, call waiting, etc. Did I mention because of this we only pay $0.07 a minute for long distance.
Now many people are seeing this as a very bad deal because the power company is supposed to be non-profit because they have a natural monopoly over the services. Well it doesn't have to be, the way our community handled this is that the electric company issued bonds to the community to pay for the project. In essence the community owns the service, anyone that has a problem with the service are invited to public meetings held about every six months. But the one thing you have to keep in mind is that with your local power company hosting all of your services you also have all your hard earned money going right back into your own community. Sure our previous service was based here but the profit leaves the area and goes to where ever their home office is.
What ever you do if you hear that your local electric company is considering this goto their board meeting and hear them out. It will come to a vote eventually and your vote could be the one to make it happen for you as well.
by your comments you are stating that your $40 a month broadband connection enables you and you alone to tie up a full T1 all the time? How is it that your $40 comes anywhere near covering the cost of the $1200 a month line?
For those that use a P2P responsibly(login, download a few then log off) great. But the fact is the majority of the populous on the P2P networks have no knowledge of what a T1 is or how much bandwidth they are ever using. So it isn't a matter of the ISP allowing their customers to pull as hard as they want all the time. If this were the case all ISPs would have to have fulltime backbone connections and the infrastructure would cave under the load. But you would argue that your $40 a month would is enough to get all the phone companies in the world to upgrade their systems. They need to find ways to preserve some of their bandwidth for the other customers not just the P2P hogs.
I personally love the fact my ISP has blocked P2P clients I can once again load slashdot in less than 5 minutes. I shouldn't pay $40 a month for speeds less than that of a 28.8 modem because someone wants to come online and steal music they wouldn't ever consider buying.
Many of you obviously have no idea what it's like to run an ISP or administer a network. P2P uploads absolutely kill bandwidth. Responsible use, like jumping on do download something specific and upload in the process isn't a bad thing, but many dolts run uploads 24/7. It doesn't matter what the download speed is when you can't get your responses out because the up-pipe is logjammed. A local ISP with 6 T1s has had their up-pipe maxed for literally months, when they blocked P2P uploads, the outgoing traffic went from an average of 98% to 25% and the download rates once again became normal.
If you really want to know what P2P is all about, sit and talk with a technician from your local ISP. It has very little to do with RIAA, and everything to do with customer satisfaction.
All I know is I work my ass off contracted to 6 Different public school systems by a business of about 10 - 15 people. I was invited over to the boss's/owner's $350k house to eat a $300 piece of tenderloin and we all got about 1/4 the bonus we have the past 4 years. I don't know if this is right or wrong, but there's definately something strange with this math.
I don't want to sound like a troll or a bad infomercial but I am currently beta testing a program called snapstream that does everything that a tivo does along with the remote show management, and supports multiple codecs for recording too.
Don't take my word for it check it out. http://www.snapstream.com the watching live tv over my network at home is really nice. Plus being able to connect in anytime from work and see what is going on has been fun as well.
What if this was applied to the latest versions of microsoft software on the enterprise level? For anyone that hasn't dealt with these it is simply microsoft charges you for 100 copies of their software yet only sends you a piece of paper stating it is for 100 copies and one CD. For most admins in a large environment you will copy your install media then start multiple "legal" installs at one time. Always leaving your original CD in its jewel case so you keep a pristine copy. When will these companies realize that for every one illegal copy they stop, or at least slow down for 24 hours. There are hundreds of legal copies that they also blocking. This making the lives of their paying customers more difficult. Now if I were to choose star office, lotus, word perfect office, or microsoft office. I am most likely to pick the software that I can easily administer.
I only saw one comment that came near this so far. If everyone here will recall 3dfx's parting shot before they left the industry was a dual gpu card called the Voodoo 5 5500 and they were working on a quad card also. With nvidia and ati being so competitive in the field it pushed out a good company from the market place which slowed down the innovation in the industry. Before the Voodoo 5500 came out there was the wildcat cards, they are still going for outrageous money for high end CAD systems. They had the ability to tie together multiple cards/GPUs and split up the video processing power. The only real drawback was you had to be running Windows NT4 no other drivers were ever released for them.
I say all of that just to come back to the point who really needs more than 60 fps anyway? Your eyes can't tell the difference much over the 40 - 50 range. So who really cares if your new GeForce4 can do 120fps in quake. My old voodoo 5500 does 40+ in very nice color.
GPA isn't everything. Some of us graduated with little over a 2.5 but have the drive when it comes to things that really matter, technology. Personally, college to me, was a few classes that were useful and the rest were filler. Universities are designed to give a person a well rounded education, while I may have higher honors in my tech classes I may not care to attend my accounting hours. Based on your criteria my hatred for accounting makes me a bad choice for the job you are offering. Same goes with marketing, if I am working on making your network stronger what need do I have for selling your companies product.
On the flipside of that you can say that marketing classes may give a student the ability to sell the idea of new network equipment to management. While good as that may be, did I need to perform at the top of my class for this skill?
GPA doesn't fully reflect a person's motivation, drive or willingness to learn. In many cases mommy and daddy wouldn't pay for school if they didn't hit the grades, or they might lose their free ride. Some of us had to work our way through school and would rather do good there then stay up all night studying.
You are so right on that point. Most people that are certified are worthless. I prefer to think of them as "Certifiablely Useless".
A friend of mine is insisting that if he becomes a CCIE he will have offers pour in. We keep telling him that he is wasting his time on this endevour and just needs to get back to work with the rest of us and stop being part of the Certified Unemployable.
Now you can't bash all "certified" people. There are some of us out there that are certified and can show you the paper to prove it. We just don't push it out there when we first meet, that IMO is the mark of the true tech.
"But for the cost of the $26.00 book, you might as well just wait a week and pay $11.00 at the movie theaters for the same information - in much less time."
DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not Everybody reads an entire novell in a couple of hours.
BTW, have you read any of Salvatore's books? I have. Don't base a book review on a movie even if that book is based on the Movie.
This is a cross platform directory service that would suit your needs. I have seen it in use between Novell systems and NT systems but I was told that it works with UNIX based systems as well. As a database it is very quick for accessing and changing information between NT and Novell systems. Can't speak for the UNIX environments, yet, But I would love to hear how it works from anyone else in the field.
The lastest novell clients aren't always the solution. For example WindowsME doens't like most any of the clients, and Windows2K doesn't care for it's client much either. I use these on a daily basis and it is best to know what all problems might come up and know the fixes for them. (setup a test environment for problems before you set the students loose on installing the client)
Slashdot Mirror
Way to go Acidus!
It will stream it if you allow it to transcode over to wmv format. It can't stream the mpeg2 files for now but they are working on it.
http://www.snapstream.com
This is the software I use. It is another that is windows based, it supports all the major cards. It can also do some limited commercial skipping, and can transcode the recordings into other formats and sizes. The best part is you can log into their programming services http://www.snapstream.net from any computer and schedule your PC to record something. You can also see what you are scheduled to record along with what you have recorded via a webinterface from anywhere also. I guess that is standard anymore though as is the ability to watch live TV over the net as well.
Actually for corporate / enterprise level workstations acrobat, java, flash and everything along those lines are essential for the freeflow of information through a company.
This thing rocks I have had it for around 4 years now, it writes upside down and easily on a wall.
Fisher Space Pen
Only bad part is I have to order the ink cause the refills are pressurized. Great pen though.
Congrats to Elonka and crew on decoding it. We all hope you figure out that last section of Kryptos!
Listen up people, it doesn't say it has to be from the crash. It could be an offical souvenir.
The first mini-series has been released in a 2 DVD set. Just check your local video store or your favorite online retailer *cough* DVD Empire *cough* ;) Always go for the wide screen directors cut.
DVD Profiler Collection
automag this is because the power company has a natural monopoly over the industry and is thus controlled by the government to ensure that they aren't gouging the customers. The reason that this type of monopoly is allowed to exist is the simple fact that you don't want to have 20 sets of power lines for different companies in one location. I am forced to think back to my economics classes where we were shown pictures of New York City with hundreds of different phone lines going down the streets and across the buildings.
but this article isn't directed at poor rural folk that only have one choice in everything. this is directed at small towns that could benefit from a little competition.
There are many of these systems in place today, not only are they offering cable tv and internet but phone service as well. Glasgow was the model town for motorola to try out some of the new technology. Murray, KY was their next stop and they have come along way in the last two years since the initial install was made. Here is a link to the hardware used. http://broadband.motorola.com/catalog/productdetai l.asp?ProductID=211
I pay about $20 a month for phone service with callerid, call waiting, etc. Another $27 for extended basic cable which is about 70 channels and then $19 for internet access. If I were to go with the competeing companies in town I would be paying $40 a month for cable an additional $40 for cable modem service through them, *ahem* charter *ahem* overpriced *ahem*, plus a phone line and long distance through bellsouth, at least $30 before caller id, call waiting, etc. Did I mention because of this we only pay $0.07 a minute for long distance.
Now many people are seeing this as a very bad deal because the power company is supposed to be non-profit because they have a natural monopoly over the services. Well it doesn't have to be, the way our community handled this is that the electric company issued bonds to the community to pay for the project. In essence the community owns the service, anyone that has a problem with the service are invited to public meetings held about every six months. But the one thing you have to keep in mind is that with your local power company hosting all of your services you also have all your hard earned money going right back into your own community. Sure our previous service was based here but the profit leaves the area and goes to where ever their home office is.
What ever you do if you hear that your local electric company is considering this goto their board meeting and hear them out. It will come to a vote eventually and your vote could be the one to make it happen for you as well.
by your comments you are stating that your $40 a month broadband connection enables you and you alone to tie up a full T1 all the time? How is it that your $40 comes anywhere near covering the cost of the $1200 a month line?
For those that use a P2P responsibly(login, download a few then log off) great. But the fact is the majority of the populous on the P2P networks have no knowledge of what a T1 is or how much bandwidth they are ever using. So it isn't a matter of the ISP allowing their customers to pull as hard as they want all the time. If this were the case all ISPs would have to have fulltime backbone connections and the infrastructure would cave under the load. But you would argue that your $40 a month would is enough to get all the phone companies in the world to upgrade their systems. They need to find ways to preserve some of their bandwidth for the other customers not just the P2P hogs.
I personally love the fact my ISP has blocked P2P clients I can once again load slashdot in less than 5 minutes. I shouldn't pay $40 a month for speeds less than that of a 28.8 modem because someone wants to come online and steal music they wouldn't ever consider buying.
Many of you obviously have no idea what it's like to run an ISP or administer a network. P2P uploads absolutely kill bandwidth. Responsible use, like jumping on do download something specific and upload in the process isn't a bad thing, but many dolts run uploads 24/7. It doesn't matter what the download speed is when you can't get your responses out because the up-pipe is logjammed. A local ISP with 6 T1s has had their up-pipe maxed for literally months, when they blocked P2P uploads, the outgoing traffic went from an average of 98% to 25% and the download rates once again became normal.
If you really want to know what P2P is all about, sit and talk with a technician from your local ISP. It has very little to do with RIAA, and everything to do with customer satisfaction.
All I know is I work my ass off contracted to 6 Different public school systems by a business of about 10 - 15 people. I was invited over to the boss's/owner's $350k house to eat a $300 piece of tenderloin and we all got about 1/4 the bonus we have the past 4 years. I don't know if this is right or wrong, but there's definately something strange with this math.
I don't want to sound like a troll or a bad infomercial but I am currently beta testing a program called snapstream that does everything that a tivo does along with the remote show management, and supports multiple codecs for recording too.
Don't take my word for it check it out. http://www.snapstream.com the watching live tv over my network at home is really nice. Plus being able to connect in anytime from work and see what is going on has been fun as well.
What if this was applied to the latest versions of microsoft software on the enterprise level? For anyone that hasn't dealt with these it is simply microsoft charges you for 100 copies of their software yet only sends you a piece of paper stating it is for 100 copies and one CD. For most admins in a large environment you will copy your install media then start multiple "legal" installs at one time. Always leaving your original CD in its jewel case so you keep a pristine copy. When will these companies realize that for every one illegal copy they stop, or at least slow down for 24 hours. There are hundreds of legal copies that they also blocking. This making the lives of their paying customers more difficult. Now if I were to choose star office, lotus, word perfect office, or microsoft office. I am most likely to pick the software that I can easily administer.
I only saw one comment that came near this so far. If everyone here will recall 3dfx's parting shot before they left the industry was a dual gpu card called the Voodoo 5 5500 and they were working on a quad card also. With nvidia and ati being so competitive in the field it pushed out a good company from the market place which slowed down the innovation in the industry. Before the Voodoo 5500 came out there was the wildcat cards, they are still going for outrageous money for high end CAD systems. They had the ability to tie together multiple cards/GPUs and split up the video processing power. The only real drawback was you had to be running Windows NT4 no other drivers were ever released for them.
I say all of that just to come back to the point who really needs more than 60 fps anyway? Your eyes can't tell the difference much over the 40 - 50 range. So who really cares if your new GeForce4 can do 120fps in quake. My old voodoo 5500 does 40+ in very nice color.
GPA isn't everything. Some of us graduated with little over a 2.5 but have the drive when it comes to things that really matter, technology. Personally, college to me, was a few classes that were useful and the rest were filler. Universities are designed to give a person a well rounded education, while I may have higher honors in my tech classes I may not care to attend my accounting hours. Based on your criteria my hatred for accounting makes me a bad choice for the job you are offering. Same goes with marketing, if I am working on making your network stronger what need do I have for selling your companies product.
On the flipside of that you can say that marketing classes may give a student the ability to sell the idea of new network equipment to management. While good as that may be, did I need to perform at the top of my class for this skill?
GPA doesn't fully reflect a person's motivation, drive or willingness to learn. In many cases mommy and daddy wouldn't pay for school if they didn't hit the grades, or they might lose their free ride. Some of us had to work our way through school and would rather do good there then stay up all night studying.
You are so right on that point. Most people that are certified are worthless. I prefer to think of them as "Certifiablely Useless".
A friend of mine is insisting that if he becomes a CCIE he will have offers pour in. We keep telling him that he is wasting his time on this endevour and just needs to get back to work with the rest of us and stop being part of the Certified Unemployable.
Now you can't bash all "certified" people. There are some of us out there that are certified and can show you the paper to prove it. We just don't push it out there when we first meet, that IMO is the mark of the true tech.
Opinion != Fact
"But for the cost of the $26.00 book, you might as well just wait a week and pay $11.00 at the movie theaters for the same information - in much less time."
DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not Everybody reads an entire novell in a couple of hours.
BTW, have you read any of Salvatore's books? I have. Don't base a book review on a movie even if that book is based on the Movie.
http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/
This is a cross platform directory service that would suit your needs. I have seen it in use between Novell systems and NT systems but I was told that it works with UNIX based systems as well. As a database it is very quick for accessing and changing information between NT and Novell systems. Can't speak for the UNIX environments, yet, But I would love to hear how it works from anyone else in the field.
The lastest novell clients aren't always the solution. For example WindowsME doens't like most any of the clients, and Windows2K doesn't care for it's client much either. I use these on a daily basis and it is best to know what all problems might come up and know the fixes for them. (setup a test environment for problems before you set the students loose on installing the client)