I'm sitting in the computer room, configuring a webserver one Sunday afternoon when I decide to play around with the new web-enabled security cameras we're evaluating.
I enter the IP address of the one camera on the far side of the ocmputer room and play around with it for a bit...then enter the IP address for the camera that's up and behind me at THIS end of the computer room.
It's at this exact moment I discover I have a bald-spot.
How smart are the cameras? If they could compress and process the image before it reaches the 'wire', then you'll also dramatically cut down on the network requirements, and the Processor requirements to compress the info at the library.
So, using 15fps instead of 30, and using motion to activate recording, and compressing at the source, you've DRAMATICALLY reduced the storage and traffic requirements for cameras that are looking at normally empty hallways.
It might give you the budget to get higher resolution images at places of interest...
We've got a group of people at my workplace that could use Wireless Internet access now...but it needs to be pervasive. They analise and evaluate gasolene storage tanks througout the state of Colorado.
So is there ANY way for them to do that, statewide, with a live internet link? Or do we have to assume that doesn't exist and cache the data until signal is available?
A few friends are considering doing something similar in a guerrilla internet kinda way:
We're looking at creating a bandwidth co-op where we lease a small amount of office space, and a symmetric DSL line (total cost, sub-$500 a month, closer to $200). The members get a single UPS'd power plug and an ethernet drop.
You end up with whatever services you want to provide for a nominal startup cost and $15 a month...in whatever OS you want.
Re:Not a replacement for a desktop...
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What the heck are you doing? In the year I've owned my ipaq3600, I've surfed the web, replaced my laptop with the addition of the ThinkOutside keyboard, answered emails in boring meetings, taken mintues in boring meetings, played games in boring meetings, hotsynced via cellphone remotely, read books on planes, listend to music in gyms, upgraded the OS twice, talked to Palms with appointments meetings and contacts and havent ONCE lost ANY data nor had the OS hang.
fud fud fud. I don't think I'd EVER go back to Palm.
"Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on
Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames
providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one
with an HTTP request for the server name."
This DOES NOT account for the number of Web servers running a particular
package to do something, it accounts for the number of servers
_installed_ whether intentionally or not.
Further, it doesn't account for website overloading whereby a number of sites
reside on the same IP address. Does Geocities count as one site, as it [may]
only be registered to one IP?
"The impact of Code Red has resulted in around 150,000 Microsoft-IIS
sites on 80,000 ip addresses disappearing from the internet,..."
Hmmm, could be a bunch of folks realized that IIS server on their SQL server
was unnecessary. Again, they may have 'disappeared', but it doesn't mean they
were used in the first place.
I mention the above as it's how were functioning in OUR case. (3 or 4
machines that never used IIS have it turned off now, and we've got several large
sites all sharing the same IP and servers)
It's a touch screen X10 device that has a display end (the touch screen) and a IR blaster end. Plug both into any power outlet in your house and it'll control the IR devices you stashed in the closet (like we did.)
This plus a Dish Network RF Remote lets us do a number of things:
I can control the satellite channel from the office
I have a remote that turns on and off the Christmas lights, two fountains
out back and the porch lights
When somebody walks up the front walk, the IR sensor fires and the touch
screen controller says "There's someone at the door".
To be brutally honest, The touchscreen system doesn't do more than volume and
power for the AV stuff in the closet. But still, it's got the potential to do
LOTS of nifty things that all the X10 folk tell you about, and it meant that
only the TV and speakers are out in the open.
It was on clearance for $500. For that kind of money, I wish I had more time
to do more with it.
If you look at the descriptions, One illustration lists the hole on the upper left (correctly) as the earphone jack, the other lists it as the Bluetooth status indicator. And the '5 way' joystick is listed at the voice recorder button. (And what should be the voice recorder button is incorrectly listed as the ambient light sensor.)
Slashdot them into non-existance, er, compliance!
"They have yet to comment. In situations like this, what should a company do to bring such a glaring GPL violation back into compliance? "
At least in my case. The default drivers that ship with RC2 don't include support for OpenGL, however the nVidia Detonator drivers install, work fine, and DO support OpenGL.
Stuck in the airport, all TVs in the councourses we were just evacuated out of, My Ipaq and Nokia 8290 were ONLY able to reach Slashdot.
Don't kid yourselves, you provided a GREAT service...for free.
Re:It's been said before...
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"Face it folks - no matter WHAT happens, the only thing that could prevent something like this is sky marshals on EVERY flight in civilian clothes. And even then, they may not be able to overpower 5 guys with weapons (since shooting guns in the air is er, not a great idea) "
I, for one, would be willing to wake up [alive] with a killer headache, on the ground safely in the event of an inflight emergency.
In smaller words:
Reinforce the bulkhead to the flight deck and arm all commercial aircraft with anaesthetic.
I've found that, as I get older, money isn't the all pervasive motivator I thought it would be.
Once I had enough money to 'get by' on, the raises didn't have as big an impact on my life. I found that I wanted to do things not to increace my financial bottom line, but for other motivations.
Why did I give away my last car? Because it was 'worth more' to someone that didn't have a car than the 'financial worth' I could get from selling it.
Why do people 'donate' to the open source movement? Because they're motivated by things other than money. That's a hard concept for some people to accept.
Slashdot Mirror
But those 'pretty little pictures' show a guy writing, editing, printing and ecommercing War and Peace in 53 seconds flat.
To borrow an automotive phrase: "The bottleneck is the loose nut behind the wheel"
Anybody know the dimensions of chinese currency?
:)
If that 100 whatever piece weighs 5 lbs, then I'm not at ALL impressed with the iPOD.
I'm sitting in the computer room, configuring a webserver one Sunday afternoon when I decide to play around with the new web-enabled security cameras we're evaluating.
I enter the IP address of the one camera on the far side of the ocmputer room and play around with it for a bit...then enter the IP address for the camera that's up and behind me at THIS end of the computer room.
It's at this exact moment I discover I have a bald-spot.
How smart are the cameras? If they could compress and process the image before it reaches the 'wire', then you'll also dramatically cut down on the network requirements, and the Processor requirements to compress the info at the library.
So, using 15fps instead of 30, and using motion to activate recording, and compressing at the source, you've DRAMATICALLY reduced the storage and traffic requirements for cameras that are looking at normally empty hallways.
It might give you the budget to get higher resolution images at places of interest...
Because, under launguage preferences it's got Swedish Chef (Bork! Bork! Bork!)
Google is always stop #1, followed by support.microsoft.com (guess why) and when THAT doesn't work, Copernic! (www.copernic.com)
We've got a group of people at my workplace that could use Wireless Internet access now...but it needs to be pervasive. They analise and evaluate gasolene storage tanks througout the state of Colorado.
So is there ANY way for them to do that, statewide, with a live internet link? Or do we have to assume that doesn't exist and cache the data until signal is available?
Are we all, like, quirky? Cause I dunno about you, but I'm reading Slashdot when I should be doing something more WORK related.
(Sheesh, I figured I'd read a Score:5 from somebody's boss telling them to get back to work...)
A few friends are considering doing something similar in a guerrilla internet kinda way:
We're looking at creating a bandwidth co-op where we lease a small amount of office space, and a symmetric DSL line (total cost, sub-$500 a month, closer to $200). The members get a single UPS'd power plug and an ethernet drop.
You end up with whatever services you want to provide for a nominal startup cost and $15 a month...in whatever OS you want.
What the heck are you doing? In the year I've owned my ipaq3600, I've surfed the web, replaced my laptop with the addition of the ThinkOutside keyboard, answered emails in boring meetings, taken mintues in boring meetings, played games in boring meetings, hotsynced via cellphone remotely, read books on planes, listend to music in gyms, upgraded the OS twice, talked to Palms with appointments meetings and contacts and havent ONCE lost ANY data nor had the OS hang.
fud fud fud. I don't think I'd EVER go back to Palm.
[sadness]I'm left with the image of a kid poking at an anthill and watching the ants scurry about.[/sadness]
You can have my laptop when you pry it out of my cold-dead-er-nevermind.
Anybody notice the 'A is for ASCII, B is for Byte' stuff on the winners index?
link
This DOES NOT account for the number of Web servers running a particular package to do something, it accounts for the number of servers _installed_ whether intentionally or not.
Further, it doesn't account for website overloading whereby a number of sites reside on the same IP address. Does Geocities count as one site, as it [may] only be registered to one IP?
Hmmm, could be a bunch of folks realized that IIS server on their SQL server was unnecessary. Again, they may have 'disappeared', but it doesn't mean they were used in the first place.
I mention the above as it's how were functioning in OUR case. (3 or 4 machines that never used IIS have it turned off now, and we've got several large sites all sharing the same IP and servers)
It's a touch screen X10 device that has a display end (the touch screen) and a IR blaster end. Plug both into any power outlet in your house and it'll control the IR devices you stashed in the closet (like we did.)
This plus a Dish Network RF Remote lets us do a number of things:
To be brutally honest, The touchscreen system doesn't do more than volume and power for the AV stuff in the closet. But still, it's got the potential to do LOTS of nifty things that all the X10 folk tell you about, and it meant that only the TV and speakers are out in the open.
It was on clearance for $500. For that kind of money, I wish I had more time to do more with it.
If you look at the descriptions, One illustration lists the hole on the upper left (correctly) as the earphone jack, the other lists it as the Bluetooth status indicator. And the '5 way' joystick is listed at the voice recorder button. (And what should be the voice recorder button is incorrectly listed as the ambient light sensor.)
Looks like somebody was a little rushed to print.
I hate to break it to ya...but Mickey-D's DOES accept credit cards.
Which makes me wonder if Amex Charges McD $1.25 for a $.99 burger...
But we're backwards compatible. :)
Go to the bank and get 10 sackajwea dollar coins. Use them in your day to day operations. I'll guarantee it will raise an eyebrow or two.
By the same token, how many people are getting the 50-state quarters with the intent of never spending them? (I am.)
You're already seeing that cash is unnecessary in todays society, now you're seeing that society start to 'collect' money as an oddity.
Anybody remember the hype trying to buy a PS2? (Sony, not IBM) Anybody have a hard time buying one now?
Geez people, have a little patience! These too will reach bargain bin status faster than Nimda infects.
Slashdot them into non-existance, er, compliance! "They have yet to comment. In situations like this, what should a company do to bring such a glaring GPL violation back into compliance? "
At least in my case. The default drivers that ship with RC2 don't include support for OpenGL, however the nVidia Detonator drivers install, work fine, and DO support OpenGL.
"Will this be the next "big game" that will force users (er, gamers) to upgrade in order to bathe in it's FPS glory?"
Without ID, I'd still be using my 2d accelerated P120 with 32mb of RAM.
Show of hands here: Who upgraded to their current system strictly BECAUSE of ID software?
The rest of you are lying.
Stuck in the airport, all TVs in the councourses we were just evacuated out of, My Ipaq and Nokia 8290 were ONLY able to reach Slashdot. Don't kid yourselves, you provided a GREAT service...for free.
"Face it folks - no matter WHAT happens, the only thing that could prevent something like this is sky marshals on EVERY flight in civilian clothes. And even then, they may not be able to overpower 5 guys with weapons (since shooting guns in the air is er, not a great idea) "
I, for one, would be willing to wake up [alive] with a killer headache, on the ground safely in the event of an inflight emergency.
In smaller words:
Reinforce the bulkhead to the flight deck and arm all commercial aircraft with anaesthetic.
I've found that, as I get older, money isn't the all pervasive motivator I thought it would be.
Once I had enough money to 'get by' on, the raises didn't have as big an impact on my life. I found that I wanted to do things not to increace my financial bottom line, but for other motivations.
Why did I give away my last car? Because it was 'worth more' to someone that didn't have a car than the 'financial worth' I could get from selling it.
Why do people 'donate' to the open source movement? Because they're motivated by things other than money. That's a hard concept for some people to accept.
"we will use an example based upon the experiences of a corporation with a presence in Washington State."
That company wouldn't be in REDMOND, would it?
(Oh, the _irony_!)