I help moderate a message board. We have roughly 40,000 registered users and between 100 and 400 on at any one time. We do between about 3 GB per day average with peak days around 7 GB from the forums only. That does not include the forum images which add a few more GB per day.
We pay roughly 6,000 per year. This includes the software, the hardware, the bandwidth and the service. (This is through http://www.ezboard.com) We have been very happy with the service, receiving assistance from the company CEO when need be. Their software/hardware is also capable of handling very long threads, (our longest being over 12,000 posts and 130mb for the text only before becoming corrupted.)
I think one of the fundamental differences between windows and linux can be seen in how they mount hard drives. Windows automatically mounts them as separate drives, automatically names them, and lays them out at the top level for you. Linux allows you to mount them wherever, under whatever name, and to unmount and remount at your own convenience.
The windows system is simple, logical, and makes sense with the physical layout of drives, (all are at the same level and are all separate). Linux on the other hand is a much more powerful and useful method, Allowing you to add room where you need under the same directory tree.
When I started with linux, (which was not very long ago, about a year and a half), the idea of having your hard drives mounted all over the place or in some directory called "/mnt" baffled me. Now that I understand it, (roughly), I appriciate the system and the technical options it allows me in usage of my hard drives. It's a matter of understanding something that on the surface is more complicated, but more powerful.
WPIDalamar, I'm actually working on a robot also. If your looking for sensors, you might want to try Lynxmotion.com. They have an ultrasonic rangefinder and an infrared collision detection circuit. If nothing else the collision detection circuit should give you an idea about how to build your own.
I use a computer w/ a cyrix C3 733. (I'm poor. I couldn't afford a real processor.) They are SLOW. They can't decode DVD's w/o the help of my hardware decoder card. Winamp3 really pushes the box to the limit. I don't think you'd want one for a media box w/o assistance hardware.
Does this processor still have low power consumption or is transmeta moving away from the small embeded market, maybe into laptops or other more sophisticated type applications?
If a vulnerability/exploit combination is already in the wild making it more common is not inappropriate if the maintainer of the source has been contacted. In many cases it expediates the fix which is important when there are no feasable workarounds.
An example can be seen in the game everquest. There was an exploit that allowed characters to crash portions of the world with almost no effort. It was left in for months because it was mainly contained on one server. It had been/bugged and reported to the maintainers of the game multiple times w/o response.
Finally, a player from the server became fed up and posted exactly how to exploit it on multiple message boards where it would be widely seen. Within days it was being used on ALL servers with regularity. It was patched in the next patch less than a week later.
Companies deal with jobs related to their importance which is not only the serverity but the population effected, (if anyone has watched fightclub when he's speaking about his job you get the idea). By spreading the knowledge the importance is increased. And the bugtraq is the best place to spread it as it will get out to as many people responsible for security as possible.
These are obviously not receiving video but instead are a thin client to a Windows XP computer. They use mira. They allow you to interact w/ the on-screen environment. They are not transmiting the data as video.
Honestly this is something I've wanted for a while as a way to put my DVD Player (computer) in a hidden, out of the way place and allow it to be controlled from a screen sitting at the couch. But at the price listed in the article, (1k-1.25k for first generation Viewsonics), the screen will be worth signifigantly more than the computer.
I'd also like to know if a standard monitor connected to the computer is needed to boot the computer. I'd assume that unless your boot process enters Windows XP w/o interaction that you need another monitor/periferal set to boot.
Finally, Can these be used with linux? If they are running Mira or windows CE for portable displays or whatever you call it it sounds like there is a small amount of internal memory to store the OS. Could these be converted into a linux thin client?
So does this mean I can press charges against QWest since I pay for a 256kbps connection and I have never topped 100kbps cumulative of all my downloads and never 70 on a single download?
What I see you argueing is that the debian installer is purposefully left hard to use because it helps to keep the less skilled from using debian. This doesn't seem like a productive goal for a product.
The debian installer IS confusing. I can use it, but it IS confusing. It is possible to create GUI's that contain both power and finess, most simply as a choise between proceeding with a GUI install or an ncurses based one.
The idea that it's ok to leave the debian installer challenging because debian should only be used by 'qualified' people is obsurd. The product should appeal to as many people as it can w/o loosing it's power. A simple installer would go a long way for that.
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Wow. I'm somewhat supprised at the number of people with legal knowledge posting here.
As far as speed, I"m running on an AMD 1.53ghz and GeForce 4 w/ NVIDIA linux drivers and at 1920x1440x24, I don't have to wait for re-renders unless I've got something else in the background taking up CPU cycles, (which is much more common on my windows box than on my linux).
My mother is a 7th grade teacher and owns a TI notebook. The school she is at uses macs almost exclusively. When she got the book, it came with OS9 and the first OSX. OSX at that time was so buggy that the person incharge of the school computer system told her not to use OSX and instead stick with OS9.
I see this move as apple trying to convince those educators who bought an apple under OS9 or OSX / 9 to upgrade so that the students coming out of the schools are tutored in OSX helping to foster the OS.
To update, and in fairness to Verant, I want to say they DID give us the passes we were originally promised though they made it clear we would not be granted the hospitality again.
People macroing are making MUCH more than the author speculates. Lets remember that the 4 hours of play time is MONITORED. Macroing requires no monitoring so can be done say, at night, while your at work, while your cooking, while your watching TV. The people doing this can make a couple hundred thousand PP per day EASILY.
And this is effecting the economy. Items that used to not be sold are being sold but for prices unobtainable w/o the use of macroing. Items no longer go to the most worthy but to the people who macro or use the various other exploits which exist, (and which VI is aware of as they are of macroing). No longer is skill the determining factor but instead cheating.
But VI/SOE(Verant Interactive/Sony Online Entertainment) have given up on the game. They have an expansion due out next week and most conclusions are that it will be the last for Everquest. Everquest 2 is in development and has been for quite some time. While it is possible that the lack of response to the multiple exploits that have been divulged to VI/SOE is due to the cramming required to release a non-buggy expansion on time, (something the company is not known for), it is also possible that by allowing corruption of the economy along with the loss of customer service that has been identified recently VI/SOE is sinking it's own ship in the hopes that those on board will be forced to swim to one of its newer games, (at higher prices and even more 'alternate' - read pay for power - payment plans).
I am very disguisted with VI/SOE's treatment of it's players recently. Things that were 'against the Vision of the game' have been introduced to ring more cash out of the game. Things such as name changes and server transfers. The Fanfaires that used to be solely run to foster community in everquest are now run instead to make money for the company. I am part of the staff at one of the largest everquest message boards, (currently 37594 registered users). We have an active staff of 10, 9 of which are able to attend this FanFaire. We were originally told by the person in charge of Fanfaires that we would receive vendor badges for the Fanfaire for all our members free. We all made travel plans including a person flying from Germany and another from Britian in good faith. The next email we get back, which we believed would be a confirmation of our badges and table, stated that giving us badges would cost the company 1000 dollars and that we would only receive 4 badges and the table. At 85 dollars per badge, there are those of us who cannot afford it. We are hoping to relinquish such things as the meal in a possible compromise, but the clear backpedaling on their openness to recieve us has definately hurt us since many of us had already spend hundreds on the flights to get us there. It's just another example of the company squeezing money from a product and at the same time killing it to benefit it's next product line.
I appologize for my spelling. I guess we do have a fundamentally different way of looking at things. I look at creation to satisfy a need. When I take on a project it is because something is needed. The first thing I do is see what has already been developed in the area, then chart the current solutions' benefits and disadvantages against my proposed creation. Blender fulfills a need for an open source 3D suite. But does what moonlight is intended to do fulfill a need?
My contacts in 3D modeling, animation and rendering tell me they only use the high end packages such as softimage|XSI, Maya, Renderman, in house tools, etc. The market has software at all levels already. Bryce, Lightwave, 3DSMax, and all of the smaller packages don't leave alot of room for a new product. It is possible that they will make a jump that no other software packages has made but it is unlikely.
I don't mean to say that Open Source software in general is useless. I am typing this on mozilla 1.1 on linux. But it is useful in so far as it fulfills a need.
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I prefer a method other than, "throw engineering projects at the wall and see what is accepted".
There is as little wrong w/ people developing things that I dont' think are worth developing as there is with me questioning whether it needs to be developed.
While this project is working back to the place the code was at in 1999, the other projects that are already mature will keep refining themselves.
Professional does not equal better, but an exponetial number of manhours more already commited to the project in most cases does.
As for the gimp, it's the best linux has but it sure as hell isn't photoshop yet. The gimp is nice when I need to do something small and I don't want to work on the other computer. But when I need a good quality graphic, or the work is complicated, it's definately photoshop that I go to.
As for Noble, you're more than welcome to accept my definition of it or not. In this situation Noble would be the expenditure of work to increase an individuals, or possibly the public domain's, knowledge on the subject of 3D mathematics.
Do we really need another 3D suit? For those who don't want to pay for their 3D suit or want to feel good about using an open source 3D suit there's Blender. For those who actually need to model professionally theres Softimage and Maya. While it is noble to undertake writing a 3D suit, is it prudent to attempt to rewrite something that had already been written by 1999? To work on a project that is leagues behind the professional suits and that for all intents and purposes will most likely never be used in a professional setting?
Seriously, the trailer makes it worth a rent at minimum... What red blooded male doesent like sports + nudity + pimps + hookers + weapons.. Especially in digital form!
If I want Nudity + pimps + hookers + weapons/sports, I'll download porn.
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We pay roughly 6,000 per year. This includes the software, the hardware, the bandwidth and the service. (This is through http://www.ezboard.com) We have been very happy with the service, receiving assistance from the company CEO when need be. Their software/hardware is also capable of handling very long threads, (our longest being over 12,000 posts and 130mb for the text only before becoming corrupted.)
The windows system is simple, logical, and makes sense with the physical layout of drives, (all are at the same level and are all separate). Linux on the other hand is a much more powerful and useful method, Allowing you to add room where you need under the same directory tree.
When I started with linux, (which was not very long ago, about a year and a half), the idea of having your hard drives mounted all over the place or in some directory called "/mnt" baffled me. Now that I understand it, (roughly), I appriciate the system and the technical options it allows me in usage of my hard drives. It's a matter of understanding something that on the surface is more complicated, but more powerful.
WPIDalamar, I'm actually working on a robot also. If your looking for sensors, you might want to try Lynxmotion.com. They have an ultrasonic rangefinder and an infrared collision detection circuit. If nothing else the collision detection circuit should give you an idea about how to build your own.
I know there's a Michael Jackson joke here somewhere...
It's very important to find the woman, THEN get the hobit hole.. =)
A hobbit hole! Now THAT would help me woo the ladies!
Remember, only the RIAA is allowed to steal from needy artists. May God help anyone else who tries.
It doesn't have trouble doing the MP3 decoding, but managing the 25,000 song playlist, the winamp3 media browser, the scope, and the xml skin push it.
I use a computer w/ a cyrix C3 733. (I'm poor. I couldn't afford a real processor.) They are SLOW. They can't decode DVD's w/o the help of my hardware decoder card. Winamp3 really pushes the box to the limit. I don't think you'd want one for a media box w/o assistance hardware.
Does this processor still have low power consumption or is transmeta moving away from the small embeded market, maybe into laptops or other more sophisticated type applications?
Um, They are actually developing an Everquest 2 to come out next year. You can read about it at sony's site and watch some videos at IGN
An example can be seen in the game everquest. There was an exploit that allowed characters to crash portions of the world with almost no effort. It was left in for months because it was mainly contained on one server. It had been /bugged and reported to the maintainers of the game multiple times w/o response.
Finally, a player from the server became fed up and posted exactly how to exploit it on multiple message boards where it would be widely seen. Within days it was being used on ALL servers with regularity. It was patched in the next patch less than a week later.
Companies deal with jobs related to their importance which is not only the serverity but the population effected, (if anyone has watched fightclub when he's speaking about his job you get the idea). By spreading the knowledge the importance is increased. And the bugtraq is the best place to spread it as it will get out to as many people responsible for security as possible.
Honestly this is something I've wanted for a while as a way to put my DVD Player (computer) in a hidden, out of the way place and allow it to be controlled from a screen sitting at the couch. But at the price listed in the article, (1k-1.25k for first generation Viewsonics), the screen will be worth signifigantly more than the computer.
I'd also like to know if a standard monitor connected to the computer is needed to boot the computer. I'd assume that unless your boot process enters Windows XP w/o interaction that you need another monitor/periferal set to boot.
Finally, Can these be used with linux? If they are running Mira or windows CE for portable displays or whatever you call it it sounds like there is a small amount of internal memory to store the OS. Could these be converted into a linux thin client?
So does this mean I can press charges against QWest since I pay for a 256kbps connection and I have never topped 100kbps cumulative of all my downloads and never 70 on a single download?
The debian installer IS confusing. I can use it, but it IS confusing. It is possible to create GUI's that contain both power and finess, most simply as a choise between proceeding with a GUI install or an ncurses based one.
The idea that it's ok to leave the debian installer challenging because debian should only be used by 'qualified' people is obsurd. The product should appeal to as many people as it can w/o loosing it's power. A simple installer would go a long way for that.
Wow. I'm somewhat supprised at the number of people with legal knowledge posting here.
From then on, they just apt-get new versions.
As far as speed, I"m running on an AMD 1.53ghz and GeForce 4 w/ NVIDIA linux drivers and at 1920x1440x24, I don't have to wait for re-renders unless I've got something else in the background taking up CPU cycles, (which is much more common on my windows box than on my linux).
I see this move as apple trying to convince those educators who bought an apple under OS9 or OSX / 9 to upgrade so that the students coming out of the schools are tutored in OSX helping to foster the OS.
To update, and in fairness to Verant, I want to say they DID give us the passes we were originally promised though they made it clear we would not be granted the hospitality again.
as long as they come in nice tins or other mailable cases. I'm always needing containers to mail CD's to my friends in.
And this is effecting the economy. Items that used to not be sold are being sold but for prices unobtainable w/o the use of macroing. Items no longer go to the most worthy but to the people who macro or use the various other exploits which exist, (and which VI is aware of as they are of macroing). No longer is skill the determining factor but instead cheating.
But VI/SOE(Verant Interactive/Sony Online Entertainment) have given up on the game. They have an expansion due out next week and most conclusions are that it will be the last for Everquest. Everquest 2 is in development and has been for quite some time. While it is possible that the lack of response to the multiple exploits that have been divulged to VI/SOE is due to the cramming required to release a non-buggy expansion on time, (something the company is not known for), it is also possible that by allowing corruption of the economy along with the loss of customer service that has been identified recently VI/SOE is sinking it's own ship in the hopes that those on board will be forced to swim to one of its newer games, (at higher prices and even more 'alternate' - read pay for power - payment plans).
I am very disguisted with VI/SOE's treatment of it's players recently. Things that were 'against the Vision of the game' have been introduced to ring more cash out of the game. Things such as name changes and server transfers. The Fanfaires that used to be solely run to foster community in everquest are now run instead to make money for the company. I am part of the staff at one of the largest everquest message boards, (currently 37594 registered users). We have an active staff of 10, 9 of which are able to attend this FanFaire. We were originally told by the person in charge of Fanfaires that we would receive vendor badges for the Fanfaire for all our members free. We all made travel plans including a person flying from Germany and another from Britian in good faith. The next email we get back, which we believed would be a confirmation of our badges and table, stated that giving us badges would cost the company 1000 dollars and that we would only receive 4 badges and the table. At 85 dollars per badge, there are those of us who cannot afford it. We are hoping to relinquish such things as the meal in a possible compromise, but the clear backpedaling on their openness to recieve us has definately hurt us since many of us had already spend hundreds on the flights to get us there. It's just another example of the company squeezing money from a product and at the same time killing it to benefit it's next product line.
My contacts in 3D modeling, animation and rendering tell me they only use the high end packages such as softimage|XSI, Maya, Renderman, in house tools, etc. The market has software at all levels already. Bryce, Lightwave, 3DSMax, and all of the smaller packages don't leave alot of room for a new product. It is possible that they will make a jump that no other software packages has made but it is unlikely.
I don't mean to say that Open Source software in general is useless. I am typing this on mozilla 1.1 on linux. But it is useful in so far as it fulfills a need.
As for the gimp, it's the best linux has but it sure as hell isn't photoshop yet. The gimp is nice when I need to do something small and I don't want to work on the other computer. But when I need a good quality graphic, or the work is complicated, it's definately photoshop that I go to.
As for Noble, you're more than welcome to accept my definition of it or not. In this situation Noble would be the expenditure of work to increase an individuals, or possibly the public domain's, knowledge on the subject of 3D mathematics.
Do we really need another 3D suit? For those who don't want to pay for their 3D suit or want to feel good about using an open source 3D suit there's Blender. For those who actually need to model professionally theres Softimage and Maya. While it is noble to undertake writing a 3D suit, is it prudent to attempt to rewrite something that had already been written by 1999? To work on a project that is leagues behind the professional suits and that for all intents and purposes will most likely never be used in a professional setting?
If I want Nudity + pimps + hookers + weapons/sports, I'll download porn.