Thanks for bringing this up. Remember, half of the population has an IQ under 100, by definition.
Wrong! The average IQ of the population as a whole is, by definition, 100. Slight difference there, but it matters since the IQ scale for adults goes from 0 to 250+, so the distribution can be uneven.
In Finland this works and we even have progressive income tax. Every year the government mails us tax cards that shows how much the employer should take out from the paycheck so that we don't have to pay any extra taxes. You then give this paper to your employer (if you havent done that then he will have to take 40+% tax from the paycheck). If you get a raise, extra deductions etc, you can always call the tax office and they'll calculate you a new card. Very simple and efficient.
Actually DVDs don't have much bandwidth for audio. Usually the AC3 track is 358kbps and that is used for 6 channels (DTS has little bit more bandwidth but not much). Same audiotrack compressed with FLAC would use more than 2000kbps. The audio quality is closer to a good quality MP3 (256kbps) than to uncompressed PCM.
Get an 90euro dual-layer dvd-burner and then burn it all. You could compress and split the data to reasonable sized files while burning them on dvd. Worst case you need 4.5GB or 9GB (single or dual layer) of temporary space to hold the files while burning them. And if you don't trust the quality of DVDs, you can always make multiple copies.
I'd rather have a 15,000rpm/146GB scsi drive for stuff that actually requires speed and then pile of 5400rpm/500GB ATA-100 drives for stuff that needs to be archived. And perhaps a 6GB solidstate drive for stuff that really requires speed (like swap partition)
Humm. Usually DVDs have either Dolby Digital AC3 or DTS (sometimes MPEG layer II) compressed audio tracks (and using something like 300-400kbps for 6 channels). The only DVDs with uncompressed PCM audio on my collection are music videos.
But with make-kpkg you can easily compile and install your own custom kernel with any hardware support and patches you might need. And you can install the created.deb to as many servers you need to.
And I think Debian Stable comes with SMP enabled kernel, so it should work with dual xeons with up to 4GB of ram.
I have a good enough ruleset now that any SpamAssassin score scored over -42 goes to/dev/null and I haven't seen any false positives in the past six months and I've also noticed that I seem to get less mail from my friends than before. Perhaps they don't like to write to me anymore..
Well my work email folder is currently 750MB and holds about 4 years worth of mail (including spam) and my other email folders on the same server take another 750MB (and does not include the mail-lists I get). So it is quite easy to accumulate 1GB of mail. And my boss is even worse. He gets often 100-300MB attachments, but fortunately saves the files on our fileserver instead of the IMAP server.
Humm.. Why do you need to send the mail through your workplace server? Why not send it to your ISPs SMTP server?
If you really need to connect to your workplace SMTP server, you could use SSH (assuming there is atleast one server allowing SSH connections at your workplace) and just port forward your local port 25 to your workplace server's port 25.
That sounds quite limited online banking experience. Here in Finland you can transfer you money to any account you want (that is how bills are paid), but you can also apply for loan, cancel your creditcards etc. Fortunately we do use these one-time passwords so the risk of this happening is quite low. IIRC the banks here have always used one-time passwords, atleast they did when I had my first online banking experience with 2400bps modem.
There are plenty of 5.1 music DVDs out there. Like this Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells II&III DVD I'm listening. It has 5.1 AC3 compressed and surround remixed soundtrack and also 2 channel PCM uncompressed 48KHz track.
Humm.. My Volvo 360 weights about 1110kg/2447lb and has only 100bhp but still goes up to 110mph so i'm guessing that this much nicer looking car must go atleast as fast as my bulky car:)
IIRC the,8 meant device id 8 which was default for first floppy (4 drives could be chained) and,1 for non-basic programs, probably for binary-safe loading..
I've noticed that even with 2.6 kernel my Linux just dies when execute couple fork bombs. But Windows 2000 doesn't die on them. After 20-30 opened windows it says that there isn't any resources left and I can logout and then continue working. It seems that Win2k is great improvement for me..
Don't forget 16:9 TVs and that many 4:3 allow you to squash the 4:3 display area to 16:9 thus leaving the black bars but no pixels are wasted. Also the player doesn't stretch the image the TV squashes it, horizontal resolution is always 720 pixels (though no pixels really exists on TV signal)
The Nokia Mediamaster 9600 digital satellite reciever had SCSI connector. You could plug a HDD or PC to it and after OS upgrade (DVB2000) you had a perfect PVR which recorded nice MPEG-2 files without any stuped DRM etc restrictions. I just hope this new model allows me to burn those recorded show on DVD.
Except there is no need for compression because the video is already in mpeg-2. And you would need more than one reciever to record multiple shows unless you have multiple video streams in the frequency you're watching/recording.
Well, perhaps because eg in Finland we don't have those problems. And if you happen to have bad reception in your house you can either call you operator and they often fix it or switch to another operator that works better, your phone number will still be the same.
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With diskless netboot..
Wrong! The average IQ of the population as a whole is, by definition, 100. Slight difference there, but it matters since the IQ scale for adults goes from 0 to 250+, so the distribution can be uneven.
In Finland this works and we even have progressive income tax. Every year the government mails us tax cards that shows how much the employer should take out from the paycheck so that we don't have to pay any extra taxes. You then give this paper to your employer (if you havent done that then he will have to take 40+% tax from the paycheck). If you get a raise, extra deductions etc, you can always call the tax office and they'll calculate you a new card. Very simple and efficient.
Actually DVDs don't have much bandwidth for audio. Usually the AC3 track is 358kbps and that is used for 6 channels (DTS has little bit more bandwidth but not much). Same audiotrack compressed with FLAC would use more than 2000kbps. The audio quality is closer to a good quality MP3 (256kbps) than to uncompressed PCM.
Get an 90euro dual-layer dvd-burner and then burn it all. You could compress and split the data to reasonable sized files while burning them on dvd. Worst case you need 4.5GB or 9GB (single or dual layer) of temporary space to hold the files while burning them. And if you don't trust the quality of DVDs, you can always make multiple copies.
I'd rather have a 15,000rpm/146GB scsi drive for stuff that actually requires speed and then pile of 5400rpm/500GB ATA-100 drives for stuff that needs to be archived. And perhaps a 6GB solidstate drive for stuff that really requires speed (like swap partition)
Humm. Usually DVDs have either Dolby Digital AC3 or DTS (sometimes MPEG layer II) compressed audio tracks (and using something like 300-400kbps for 6 channels). The only DVDs with uncompressed PCM audio on my collection are music videos.
But with make-kpkg you can easily compile and install your own custom kernel with any hardware support and patches you might need. And you can install the created .deb to as many servers you need to.
And I think Debian Stable comes with SMP enabled kernel, so it should work with dual xeons with up to 4GB of ram.
I have a good enough ruleset now that any SpamAssassin score scored over -42 goes to /dev/null and I haven't seen any false positives in the past six months and I've also noticed that I seem to get less mail from my friends than before. Perhaps they don't like to write to me anymore..
Well my work email folder is currently 750MB and holds about 4 years worth of mail (including spam) and my other email folders on the same server take another 750MB (and does not include the mail-lists I get). So it is quite easy to accumulate 1GB of mail. And my boss is even worse. He gets often 100-300MB attachments, but fortunately saves the files on our fileserver instead of the IMAP server.
Extra points for getting it posted on Slashdot and surviving it..
Humm.. Why do you need to send the mail through your workplace server? Why not send it to your ISPs SMTP server?
If you really need to connect to your workplace SMTP server, you could use SSH (assuming there is atleast one server allowing SSH connections at your workplace) and just port forward your local port 25 to your workplace server's port 25.
That sounds quite limited online banking experience. Here in Finland you can transfer you money to any account you want (that is how bills are paid), but you can also apply for loan, cancel your creditcards etc. Fortunately we do use these one-time passwords so the risk of this happening is quite low. IIRC the banks here have always used one-time passwords, atleast they did when I had my first online banking experience with 2400bps modem.
Or one could use winter grade diesel fuel, though engine heater at -42degC/F winter morning is a good idea.
But you just compressed the video signal by subsampling the U and V components. True uncompressed video has full resolution also on U and V.
But it really doesn't matter because the original poster meant unrecompressed MPEG2 video.
There are plenty of 5.1 music DVDs out there. Like this Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells II&III DVD I'm listening. It has 5.1 AC3 compressed and surround remixed soundtrack and also 2 channel PCM uncompressed 48KHz track.
Humm.. My Volvo 360 weights about 1110kg/2447lb and has only 100bhp but still goes up to 110mph so i'm guessing that this much nicer looking car must go atleast as fast as my bulky car :)
Well, originally RAID was for SCSI only and four 100GB SCSI hdds might still cost more than one 400GB IDE.
IIRC the ,8 meant device id 8 which was default for first floppy (4 drives could be chained) and ,1 for non-basic programs, probably for binary-safe loading..
I've noticed that even with 2.6 kernel my Linux just dies when execute couple fork bombs. But Windows 2000 doesn't die on them. After 20-30 opened windows it says that there isn't any resources left and I can logout and then continue working. It seems that Win2k is great improvement for me..
Don't forget 16:9 TVs and that many 4:3 allow you to squash the 4:3 display area to 16:9 thus leaving the black bars but no pixels are wasted. Also the player doesn't stretch the image the TV squashes it, horizontal resolution is always 720 pixels (though no pixels really exists on TV signal)
I wonder where you got that 720x368 resolution? Ever hear of PAL and anamorphic DVDs?
The Nokia Mediamaster 9600 digital satellite reciever had SCSI connector. You could plug a HDD or PC to it and after OS upgrade (DVB2000) you had a perfect PVR which recorded nice MPEG-2 files without any stuped DRM etc restrictions. I just hope this new model allows me to burn those recorded show on DVD.
Except there is no need for compression because the video is already in mpeg-2. And you would need more than one reciever to record multiple shows unless you have multiple video streams in the frequency you're watching/recording.
Well, perhaps because eg in Finland we don't have those problems. And if you happen to have bad reception in your house you can either call you operator and they often fix it or switch to another operator that works better, your phone number will still be the same.