Well, I won't address the h@x0r issue; but at my university we had all kinds of network problems for my first two years - wiring closets randomly dropping offline, unschedules upgrades and outtages, the fat pipe to the outsid world being down, etc - including many calls to the help desk to report outtages, the response I got most often was "it's up here, try again in an hour" - but that's another matter. you wouldn't believe the number of frantic students and excuses students had because of the network being down - every week there was trouble in class because no one (not even the prof) could get their online work, research, projects, etc done...
I think you're talking about flourecent lighting. While incandescants do take AC as you metioned, the flicker is neglegable due to the fact that the filiment glows for most longer than the 1/60th of a second between cycles. Flourecent's on the other hand, are notorious for flickering at that rate.
Mackie is exactly the company I thought of as I made my way down the comments. If only I had a manual handy I could enlighten everyone to the comedy...everyone cracked up at me, enjoying reading a manual for a board....
you should either look into downloading your email using a POP3
Not to be too critical, I agree that for imporant email a 'real' account is more prefered, but hotmail doesn't allow pop3 access...you can get your email through Outlook Express but of course it doesn't follow a published standard.
As for getting a real account, take me: I'm a college kid, so I've got an account at school. That's it. Nothing at home (parents just got online a few weeks ago and I don't have a pop account at their server; I probably should get one this summer). I want something that will stay with me for a while so I don't have people loose track of me just because my ISP changed. Hotmail is great for that. The only other alternatives are my own domain (not a good option for a poor college kid) or a redirect via sneakemail.com (I do use this sometimes; great service!).
I love how their postmaster@hotmail.com messages - the imporant ones like "sorry, your somewhat important email that you're expecting a reply to rather urgently didn't get there; it bounced" get stored in the junk mail; but the account size warnings go right through. And before anyone suggests it, postmaster@hotmail.com has been on my 'safe list' for some time. Argh. Time to switch to yahoo...oh, wait, no pop3 anymore, too bad for them...
Here in eastern PA I can probably think of 10 Wawas, of those there are only one or two that DON'T have gas stations...usually they've got pretty good gas prices, too...
Samba rocks. If only it wasn't so hard to configure shares... then again, maybe I'm just dumb, but it takes a lot of effort to set that stuff up.
My biggest config problem is caused not by Samba, but Windows 98 not having a good enough way of handling usernames and pw's...Its not worth the hassle of changing my windows log on name every time I want to log on to a differnent share on my Linux box.
Just FYI; a minux mix is often used, for example, in news operations where a satellite feed is being used. The remote reporter gets a minus mix, which is program audio minus their voice. Because of the distance 22,000 miles out and back twice (once to the station and once back) should add up to like 5 or 6 seconds. when you're trying to talk, listen to the producer or director talk to you, and interact with the reporters in the studio, hearing your own voice delayed that badly isn't a good idea. It's not the program audio (what you hear in your house) that's minus anything; but the signal to the reporter on the other end of the satellite.
Except any decent gate has variable time limits for how long after the signal has dropped below the threshold before it shuts off the microphone. It could be set high enough so taht if you take a breath or speak softly for a second the mic stays open. oh, BTW, they're not just a 'good cheap fix', I've got a good friend in the live sound mixing business (you know; the whole reason you hear your favorite band at a concert) who loves them. Personally; I'd rather close the mic myself and have me controlling it; but when you've got 20 or 50 or 80 mics, that gets a little out of control.
several others have written back regarding that a noise gate would be effective, and I agree; but there is another solution involving slaving several noise gates together that might help in the conference setting. I belelive they were developed for press conference type events for television (being in television myself, you'd think I'd know). It's an automatic mic mixer (one example) that basically opens the mic that best picks up a source. I'm not sure how it would handle several people talking at once, I think it's smart enough to tell the difference but I've never used them myself (in most cases a person can do such a thing so much better than a machine can). Anyway, this is probably way too expensive, suggests using special mics, and is not a software solution; but it's something to consider.
~ibennetch
Since you bring it up; at my high school TV studio we used an Amiga as our production switcher, it ran some software called the video toaster which basically took 4 cameras (or 2 cameras and 2 vcrs or whatever; four video inputs) and allowed us to switch between them. it was actually a very nice interface and an affordable solution. The software still exists but is being marketed for the w2k market, i believe. It came with all kinds of cool equipment needed to make it work (when you have more than one source, you need to syncronize the signals. This had the 'kitchen sync' to do that). We also had Lightwave on it; that made some nice renderings. And this was on an old Amiga...
Anyway; I can't imagine any 'real' tv station using an Amiga for this purpose, but for my high school it worked great.
My college recently implemented something called PacketShaper which they claim has sped up the network a lot. I can't vouch for it myself since there were several upgrades that happened at the same time, but the network is much faster now (used to time out 9 times out of 10 looking at any web page). Anyway; this program basically slows down anything they want to. P2P is last on thei priority list, AIM, email, and web is pretty high. From what they report, it's very friendly and configurable.
Possibly put an http proxy server into place if there are particular sites that need to be blocked (but don't block carte blanche)
Exactly - in my high school days a few years ago; they blocked a lot of stuff, hotmail, geocities.com and the like, etc. It caused a lot of trouble with people needed to get to a site hosted on a freebie server, tripod or geocites, because they were blocked and those were of course the sites the search engines found first. Made a lot of students pretty irritated and didn't do much for the teachers either.
I think he means the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State. UPenn is right across the street from Drexel, AFAIK there aren't any PSU campuses within an hour or two drive. 'Course the darn things are everywhere, so I could be wrong.
Honestly, I don't know why so many people use Outlook -- it isn't the fastest, most scalable, most secure, or most powerful. Its interface isn't that incredible. It *is* installed by default on a lot of systems, but that's about it.
Don't forget: it gets email from a hotmail account. I think there's a script for linux called gotmail that is (well, was a year ago) a kludgy work around to get hotmail into your local mail folders.
I know that's the only reason I use OE, and I know a lot of people who like that feature.
I'm really not sure; but I think that clock cycles don't generate a specific EM wave at that frequency because it's just an internal reference to how many calculations can be done in a second; not an actual cycle or EM radiation. I could be wrong though; I wish someone who knew more about chips would respond and correct me if needed.
My first experieince with Toshiba was similar; the HDD died and I had the laptop back within a week (as I recall) good as new...second time sucked though; about a year later, same problem, 3 weeks of calling tech support, some quite incompetant (sp?) people on the phone, and it took another 2 weeks to get it back. ARGH! On the other hand, I don't think that was directly through toshiba but rather GE-Zurich warrrenty management. They sucked big time.
I do know that people get busted for this. I don't know for sure how they're discovered and I don't know how hard cable companies push to discover people who do this; but it's theft of services and a federal offense.
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I'm a tv production major here in the USA (I didn't do too well in my media law class; too much boring memorization; besides I focus on production, not writing news stories); but from what I remember you are correct; we were told that saying 'allegedly' is no protection - still a good idea, but it's no less damaging to John Doe's reputation to have allegedly committed a crime as to actually have done it. Of course; you have to say something and the chances of getting sued are somewhat remote; but simply saying 'allegedly' isn't a huge help if you are sued.
It can not handle Unix end of line characters properly.
I couldn't agree more. My experience shows that win95/98 puts that stupid block character instead of a unix end of line (== basically one line for ALL the text; it's a real pain when looking at code); whereas 2000 displays it fine however I've found that printing it causes each intended return to turn in to two (causing minor irritation to me and my professors).
This is actually pretty neat. When I first opened the pictures; the first area I saw was eastern PA; right where I go to school. Zoom in a bit; and I recognized some of the features in the pictures. I haven't traveled very far away from home and it's cool to be able to see [a tiny sliver of], say, Colorado from here...
I just don't understand why he didn't use a digital camera...probably has something to do with it being under Kodak, I wonder if they sponsored the film or something.
I have almost no clue about SMB; but isn't SMB a network protocol; and since Windows already implements it, what good would it do the Samba team to create a Samba port for Windows? That seems to me like buying a keg of expensive beer, dumping it into the toilet, and filling the keg back up with your neighbor's homemade beer that tastes the same. Or maybe I sound like an idiot...
I don't know the answer; but if the people who you're trying hard not to look like an idiot to are misinformed themselves; you'll still look like an idiot. Case in point; I was once interviewing with someone about a job and I mentioned that I run linux (lee-nucks) [which is how Linus pronounces it in some sound clip that is stuck somewhere in my default RH install. His pronuciation, however, was (lie-nucks) [ assuming you prounuce the lie as an american would, with a long I]. I looked a bit like a fool; i feel, because I didn't pronounce it his way, even though his way was wrong.
No matter what the editors should have done (I'm not getting involved with that one); the responsibilty for hitting the servers hard rests partially on us users; don't you think? If you feel so bad about hitting the servers, wait a few days as I'll be doing.
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Well, I won't address the h@x0r issue; but at my university we had all kinds of network problems for my first two years - wiring closets randomly dropping offline, unschedules upgrades and outtages, the fat pipe to the outsid world being down, etc - including many calls to the help desk to report outtages, the response I got most often was "it's up here, try again in an hour" - but that's another matter. you wouldn't believe the number of frantic students and excuses students had because of the network being down - every week there was trouble in class because no one (not even the prof) could get their online work, research, projects, etc done...
I think you're talking about flourecent lighting. While incandescants do take AC as you metioned, the flicker is neglegable due to the fact that the filiment glows for most longer than the 1/60th of a second between cycles. Flourecent's on the other hand, are notorious for flickering at that rate.
Mackie is exactly the company I thought of as I made my way down the comments. If only I had a manual handy I could enlighten everyone to the comedy...everyone cracked up at me, enjoying reading a manual for a board....
Thanks for the link. I'd heard about Gotmail before but recently ( a few months ago ) all of google's links for it were to dead pages. thanks!
you should either look into downloading your email using a POP3
Not to be too critical, I agree that for imporant email a 'real' account is more prefered, but hotmail doesn't allow pop3 access...you can get your email through Outlook Express but of course it doesn't follow a published standard.
As for getting a real account, take me: I'm a college kid, so I've got an account at school. That's it. Nothing at home (parents just got online a few weeks ago and I don't have a pop account at their server; I probably should get one this summer). I want something that will stay with me for a while so I don't have people loose track of me just because my ISP changed. Hotmail is great for that. The only other alternatives are my own domain (not a good option for a poor college kid) or a redirect via sneakemail.com (I do use this sometimes; great service!).
I love how their postmaster@hotmail.com messages - the imporant ones like "sorry, your somewhat important email that you're expecting a reply to rather urgently didn't get there; it bounced" get stored in the junk mail; but the account size warnings go right through. And before anyone suggests it, postmaster@hotmail.com has been on my 'safe list' for some time. Argh. Time to switch to yahoo...oh, wait, no pop3 anymore, too bad for them...
Here in eastern PA I can probably think of 10 Wawas, of those there are only one or two that DON'T have gas stations...usually they've got pretty good gas prices, too...
Samba rocks.
If only it wasn't so hard to configure shares... then again, maybe I'm just dumb, but it takes a lot of effort to set that stuff up.
My biggest config problem is caused not by Samba, but Windows 98 not having a good enough way of handling usernames and pw's...Its not worth the hassle of changing my windows log on name every time I want to log on to a differnent share on my Linux box.
Just FYI; a minux mix is often used, for example, in news operations where a satellite feed is being used. The remote reporter gets a minus mix, which is program audio minus their voice. Because of the distance 22,000 miles out and back twice (once to the station and once back) should add up to like 5 or 6 seconds. when you're trying to talk, listen to the producer or director talk to you, and interact with the reporters in the studio, hearing your own voice delayed that badly isn't a good idea. It's not the program audio (what you hear in your house) that's minus anything; but the signal to the reporter on the other end of the satellite.
Except any decent gate has variable time limits for how long after the signal has dropped below the threshold before it shuts off the microphone. It could be set high enough so taht if you take a breath or speak softly for a second the mic stays open.
oh, BTW, they're not just a 'good cheap fix', I've got a good friend in the live sound mixing business (you know; the whole reason you hear your favorite band at a concert) who loves them. Personally; I'd rather close the mic myself and have me controlling it; but when you've got 20 or 50 or 80 mics, that gets a little out of control.
several others have written back regarding that a noise gate would be effective, and I agree; but there is another solution involving slaving several noise gates together that might help in the conference setting. I belelive they were developed for press conference type events for television (being in television myself, you'd think I'd know). It's an automatic mic mixer (one example) that basically opens the mic that best picks up a source. I'm not sure how it would handle several people talking at once, I think it's smart enough to tell the difference but I've never used them myself (in most cases a person can do such a thing so much better than a machine can). Anyway, this is probably way too expensive, suggests using special mics, and is not a software solution; but it's something to consider. ~ibennetch
Since you bring it up; at my high school TV studio we used an Amiga as our production switcher, it ran some software called the video toaster which basically took 4 cameras (or 2 cameras and 2 vcrs or whatever; four video inputs) and allowed us to switch between them. it was actually a very nice interface and an affordable solution. The software still exists but is being marketed for the w2k market, i believe. It came with all kinds of cool equipment needed to make it work (when you have more than one source, you need to syncronize the signals. This had the 'kitchen sync' to do that).
We also had Lightwave on it; that made some nice renderings. And this was on an old Amiga...
Anyway; I can't imagine any 'real' tv station using an Amiga for this purpose, but for my high school it worked great.
My college recently implemented something called PacketShaper which they claim has sped up the network a lot. I can't vouch for it myself since there were several upgrades that happened at the same time, but the network is much faster now (used to time out 9 times out of 10 looking at any web page). Anyway; this program basically slows down anything they want to. P2P is last on thei priority list, AIM, email, and web is pretty high. From what they report, it's very friendly and configurable.
Possibly put an http proxy server into place if there are particular sites that need to be blocked (but don't block carte blanche)
Exactly - in my high school days a few years ago; they blocked a lot of stuff, hotmail, geocities.com and the like, etc. It caused a lot of trouble with people needed to get to a site hosted on a freebie server, tripod or geocites, because they were blocked and those were of course the sites the search engines found first. Made a lot of students pretty irritated and didn't do much for the teachers either.
I think he means the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State. UPenn is right across the street from Drexel, AFAIK there aren't any PSU campuses within an hour or two drive. 'Course the darn things are everywhere, so I could be wrong.
Honestly, I don't know why so many people use Outlook -- it isn't the fastest, most scalable, most secure, or most powerful. Its interface isn't that incredible. It *is* installed by default on a lot of systems, but that's about it.
Don't forget: it gets email from a hotmail account. I think there's a script for linux called gotmail that is (well, was a year ago) a kludgy work around to get hotmail into your local mail folders. I know that's the only reason I use OE, and I know a lot of people who like that feature.
I'm really not sure; but I think that clock cycles don't generate a specific EM wave at that frequency because it's just an internal reference to how many calculations can be done in a second; not an actual cycle or EM radiation. I could be wrong though; I wish someone who knew more about chips would respond and correct me if needed.
My first experieince with Toshiba was similar; the HDD died and I had the laptop back within a week (as I recall) good as new...second time sucked though; about a year later, same problem, 3 weeks of calling tech support, some quite incompetant (sp?) people on the phone, and it took another 2 weeks to get it back. ARGH! On the other hand, I don't think that was directly through toshiba but rather GE-Zurich warrrenty management. They sucked big time.
I do know that people get busted for this. I don't know for sure how they're discovered and I don't know how hard cable companies push to discover people who do this; but it's theft of services and a federal offense.
I'm a tv production major here in the USA (I didn't do too well in my media law class; too much boring memorization; besides I focus on production, not writing news stories); but from what I remember you are correct; we were told that saying 'allegedly' is no protection - still a good idea, but it's no less damaging to John Doe's reputation to have allegedly committed a crime as to actually have done it. Of course; you have to say something and the chances of getting sued are somewhat remote; but simply saying 'allegedly' isn't a huge help if you are sued.
It can not handle Unix end of line characters properly.
I couldn't agree more. My experience shows that win95/98 puts that stupid block character instead of a unix end of line (== basically one line for ALL the text; it's a real pain when looking at code); whereas 2000 displays it fine however I've found that printing it causes each intended return to turn in to two (causing minor irritation to me and my professors).
This is actually pretty neat. When I first opened the pictures; the first area I saw was eastern PA; right where I go to school. Zoom in a bit; and I recognized some of the features in the pictures. I haven't traveled very far away from home and it's cool to be able to see [a tiny sliver of], say, Colorado from here...
I just don't understand why he didn't use a digital camera...probably has something to do with it being under Kodak, I wonder if they sponsored the film or something.
I have almost no clue about SMB; but isn't SMB a network protocol; and since Windows already implements it, what good would it do the Samba team to create a Samba port for Windows? That seems to me like buying a keg of expensive beer, dumping it into the toilet, and filling the keg back up with your neighbor's homemade beer that tastes the same. Or maybe I sound like an idiot...
I don't know the answer; but if the people who you're trying hard not to look like an idiot to are misinformed themselves; you'll still look like an idiot. Case in point; I was once interviewing with someone about a job and I mentioned that I run linux (lee-nucks) [which is how Linus pronounces it in some sound clip that is stuck somewhere in my default RH install. His pronuciation, however, was (lie-nucks) [ assuming you prounuce the lie as an american would, with a long I]. I looked a bit like a fool; i feel, because I didn't pronounce it his way, even though his way was wrong.
No matter what the editors should have done (I'm not getting involved with that one); the responsibilty for hitting the servers hard rests partially on us users; don't you think? If you feel so bad about hitting the servers, wait a few days as I'll be doing.