(wipes tears from laughing) Man that never gets old. Just for kicks go here to see their main Linux page. Then scroll down and click their #2 top story.
While I don't see GigE at home for years, it is becoming standard practice to run dual-path teamed GigE cards to servers nowadays. If everyone gets 100Mbit/s to the desktop, you need a much higher speed connection at the server side. A previous employer was slow to get that, and my MRTG charts often hit the cap during peak periods on popular servers.
The argument can be made that no one is "initiating a telephone call" of any sort to your cellphone. Granted I haven't received a single spam of any type (voice or data) on my cellphones, ever, in 9 years, so I don't have anything to complain about.
This rule should, but does not, apply to the discussion.
I would like to suggest that TiVo use the Internet to download content when connected via broadband. My unit asked me if I wanted to see info on a new Acura, and I started to sign up when I realized they wanted to **mail** stuff to me! When I say yes to those things, I want my unit to download a 15 minute infomercial that night and post an email telling me when the content I requested (man, that sounds just like spam) is ready for viewing. The last thing I need in my house is **more paper**!!
having to void your warranty in order to do any of the Tivo hacks doesn't seem to be that supportive
I will give you that. Best bet is to buy a dead 20 hour standalone off Ebay cheap and put a new 120gb drive in it. Once you activate it you can stop right there. If you can make a floppy with rawrite and hook up an ide drive to a ribbon, you can revive a TiVo (and put it on your LAN with the NIC)
But Manufacturers don't need Class A addresses. Yes, they roll a lot of boxes off the assembly lines. Then they sell them to customers
Showing as much respect as I can for your low UID, I know that manufactured parts don't need IP addresses, thank you. I was referring to the vast manufacturing plants that have at least partially automated assembly lines. Something has to control the robots at the Ford plant, and start and stop the belts moving the parts down the line. And now with cameras snapping pictures of parts rolling by on the belt as part of quality control, there are thousands upon thousands of devices that need IP connectivity throughout ALL of their manufacturing plants around the world.
Come on, show some respect to your elders. At least to someone who worked at NYU while the cameras mentioned above (and their software) were being developed, and then went on to work at an actual PC manufacturer. The information about the 12 network was interesting, though.
And please contact me if you want to lease some address space in the class A I run.. the 10 network..
I can't believe this article's been posted this long and no one has mentioned the "remote chess" scene in Bladerunner. Now we just need a small projector suspended upside down over a chessboard to project the images of the pieces onto the board.
Modding myself Redundant -1, but see your first replier. Public registered IPs does not imply publically visible by any means. If you can somehow print to one of IBM's network printers in an office from outside their network, they have a very big problem.
Think about manufacturing.. how many devices are IP-enabled nowadays.. now go through your list and think about companies that produce no less than millions of parts per year, and therefore have tremendous manufacturing facilities that have ip-enabled sh*t all over the place..
General Electric Company - Massive production lines Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - They (not Gore) invented the 'Net Army Information Systems Center - um, the **ARMY** Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - again IBM - (my employer) HUGE MANUFACTURER and 300k+ (technical) employees DoD Intel Information Systems - The Dept. of Defense AT&T Bell Laboratories - AT&T fer chrissakes, IP *everywhere* Xerox Corporation - Another big mfgr and computing co. Hewlett-Packard Company - Even bigger now with Compaq Digital Equipment Corporation - Also HPaq, ok 32 million IPs is a bit much Apple Computer Inc. - They'll never need 16m addys:) MIT - your point.. a bit much Ford Motor Company - Back to massive manufacturing facilities worldwide
Currently IBM gives you a server that can handle up to Z work but only charges you for X, where X is the amount you actually use and Z is large enough that you can handle significant spikes.
I am currently working on one of IBM's biggest On Demand deals. You seem to know enough about IBM's On Demand initiative to know that it's not the same as HP's angle.. at all. The article specifically mentions HP hosting the equipment, as opposed to the IBM way, which is to basically perform a server consolidation onto IBM hardware hosted at the customer's site bugged to report back to IBM utilization numbers.
There are a couple more huge deals about to go public that I can't mention here, but suffice it to say, HP hasn't won, nor can they. IBM is way out front in this arena. We just kicked HP out of a place they "owned" for many years, and replaced the equipment with IOD gear on 1/10th of the number of source servers. The p690 AIX and x440 Intel servers completely rock.
We also test fired an anti-satellite laser at a satellite that was no longer in use. We were originally planning to destroy the unused satellite in the test, but other countries asked us not to do so in fear of all the little pieces flying around in orbit.
A monopoly on its own is not a bad thing. An abused monopoly is. Making the service available to everyone on the face of the earth free of charge is not exactly abusing it.
It's a total waste of money at a time when $$ is tight, AFAIC. I liken this to the time when the WINE project bragged that their API emulation was so good, even Outlook Express started getting viruses under WINE. Congrats, now you'll have your own navigation system just like the one we already let you use.
Yes, I got a great laugh out of that, too. Truth be told that the Tomohawk cruise missile uses a combination of GPS and geographic pattern matching for navigation. It takes digital pictures as its flying along and compares what it sees with what the onboard systems say it should see.
That's why the GPS blockers failed so miserably against the Tomohawks.
I just had to backlevel bogofilter from 0.11 to 0.9. I don't know WTF happened between those two revs, but the filtering algorithm went straight to hell. I had forgotten that I normally get over 100 spams a day until I went to 0.11. Then it all came back and I started losing half an hour a day to sorting out my email.
I gave it a chance for over two weeks, and it never got even close to the success rate of 0.9. Not that I'm complaining, there was nothing left to improve upon in 0.9 AFAIC. (And yes, I did see that someone decided to reverse the function performed by the -N and -S switches -- thus making my crontab edits a nightmare with troubleshooting)
So I'm now back at 0.9 and back in nirvana. It's good to be home.
I've started to enjoy PDFs recently for a couple of reasons..
a) its better for handing off documentation to customers in an unmodifiable form, especially project plans
b) its MUCH better for handing off documentation when you use document linking and dynamic charts since you don't have to hand over all of the linked documents, and the raw data behind the charts if you don't want to
c) you can freeze-dry your dynamic documentation at various checkpoints
d) I also use it to print web receipts to files (eBay payments, etc)
Before even reading the writeup, I was hoping this was going to be about someone converting one of those little green glowing night lights everyone uses to little micro access points that have a range of just a few feet.. great for apartment dwellers and security-concious people living in condos.
Sorry, Jon, these are old ideals here. With Global Services' "On Demand" initiative, we consolidate and migrate servers and applications onto new IBM and Sun gear and turn the keys back over to the company. However, the servers are now bugged to report utilization back to IBM, and IBM bills the customer based on average utilization instead of the cost of the box. No more of the typical "SO jobs" you used to always hear about where IGS just hires away failing IS divisions to revamp them.
* Transciever modules - you can easily link the two phases with a 220V dryer, and the transceiver included with ActiveHome lets you select 1 or 9 for the unit code. And I run one on an old metal 4-outlet Radio Shack power strip. Never thought it would work there, but it does. * Lamp modules - I've bought a couple six packs of these from Smarthome and they most definitely last more than a week. Except on one outlet, come to think of it. Maybe that's your issue. I have 4 going on 2 1/2 years installed. * Motion sensor - bad batch, I'm sure. Mine worked for over a year before i recoded MH to ignore their signals. They sit very nicely on the trim above a doorway and they do need some tweaking -- lean them forward or backward to get the coverage you want. I would regularly get over 20ft range and turn on lights in rooms when I was just passing a "T" at the end of the hall!
Word of the wise: if you process motion sensors for lights thru Misterhouse, either verify the request against "pre or post sunset" at the PC or just set the sensor to only trip in low light. Be careful, though, because setting it to trip only in low light will just move the transmitted code up by one during daylight hours!! I would walk into a bedroom during daylight hours, and the living room light would turn on behind me until I figured that one out. I moved the living room light up one, and recoded the motion sensor's "up one" code to just record a log entry of "Too bright out to turn on the bedroom light" on the Misterhouse box.
It can be rather creepy seeing a little green LED light up in the motion sensor when you're walking around during the daylight hours. You can almost hear it saying, "I see you!"
not sure why this is suddenly news.. and yes, the cheap x10 gear is exactly that. My ActiveHome controller was making the rest of the network flaky. Commands suddenly stopped executing, and when I disconnected it from the wall, all of a sudden the lamp modules would start executing all of the commands that had been building up! Lights turning off and on for a few minutes.. quite a sight to see. I also used to reboot my cablemodem every 30 mins during the early days because the performance would degrade to the point of uselessness in that time frame. I had planned to run a job to reboot the cm whenever ping times rose above a certain limit, but Comcast fixed the problem before I needed to automate that function.
I've also been waiting for some usable code to receive button presses from my MR26A wireless receiver. Until then, my Misterhouse is one-way only.. turning on lights, either at sunset or when I'm scheduled to arrive so long as that time is between sunset and 8pm. The light in the kitchen also blinks at sunset on trash night, which is when our condo rules state we can put the trash out. I've also bought a ham radio specifically for the purpose of using the car tracking features, but I still have to pick up the PIC-E from TAPR and wire it all up.
I was just cracking my knuckles and about to dig back in to MH, too, because it already offers a tv schedule browser in grid format with "click here to record" functionality. TivoWeb lets you search the tv schedule but not browse it in grid format. I will code MH to schedule a recording on the Tivo over the LAN whenever I select a show to record from the MH grid. I have thought about getting an Audrey for that purpose in the living room.
And I, too, dream about walking through the house and have the lights and tv react appropriately. This is where the "$sleeping" variable has helped greatly -- by not having lights turn on automatically when my wife came to bed after I was asleep. No matter which light she requested to turn on, the farthest one away would turn on at 10-20% bright so as to not wake me up if the system knew/thought I was still asleep. The days of, "its okay, Alfred, I'm awake" are still a ways off, though:) Read or watch "Demon Seed" to see why we call the system "Alfred". Its more personable than "Proteus".
Oh, and something most everyone seemed to miss here, is that MH natively supports VoiceXML which means it integrates with Tell Me @ 800-555-TELL. Yes, you can call an 800 # and interact, by voice, with your home automation system totally free of charge, using text instead of voice (on the server end) and therefore significantly less horsepower. I run mine on a Pentium 75 with 48MB RAM and a thinned down RH71 or RH72 on a 1.2GB disk.
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It was very flimsy.
(wipes tears from laughing) Man that never gets old. Just for kicks go here to see their main Linux page. Then scroll down and click their #2 top story.
Now THAT is journalism!!
While I don't see GigE at home for years, it is becoming standard practice to run dual-path teamed GigE cards to servers nowadays. If everyone gets 100Mbit/s to the desktop, you need a much higher speed connection at the server side. A previous employer was slow to get that, and my MRTG charts often hit the cap during peak periods on popular servers.
-1, Irrelevant
The argument can be made that no one is "initiating a telephone call" of any sort to your cellphone. Granted I haven't received a single spam of any type (voice or data) on my cellphones, ever, in 9 years, so I don't have anything to complain about.
This rule should, but does not, apply to the discussion.
Unneeded. Its already a violation of federal law to make unsolicited sales calls to cellphones.
FYI, I friended you b/c of your TiVo connection..
I would like to suggest that TiVo use the Internet to download content when connected via broadband. My unit asked me if I wanted to see info on a new Acura, and I started to sign up when I realized they wanted to **mail** stuff to me! When I say yes to those things, I want my unit to download a 15 minute infomercial that night and post an email telling me when the content I requested (man, that sounds just like spam) is ready for viewing. The last thing I need in my house is **more paper**!!
having to void your warranty in order to do any of the Tivo hacks doesn't seem to be that supportive
I will give you that. Best bet is to buy a dead 20 hour standalone off Ebay cheap and put a new 120gb drive in it. Once you activate it you can stop right there. If you can make a floppy with rawrite and hook up an ide drive to a ribbon, you can revive a TiVo (and put it on your LAN with the NIC)
gray market network card
can't be too gray market if TiVO deploys software to all units to natively support them..
But Manufacturers don't need Class A addresses. Yes, they roll a lot of boxes off the assembly lines. Then they sell them to customers
Showing as much respect as I can for your low UID, I know that manufactured parts don't need IP addresses, thank you. I was referring to the vast manufacturing plants that have at least partially automated assembly lines. Something has to control the robots at the Ford plant, and start and stop the belts moving the parts down the line. And now with cameras snapping pictures of parts rolling by on the belt as part of quality control, there are thousands upon thousands of devices that need IP connectivity throughout ALL of their manufacturing plants around the world.
Come on, show some respect to your elders. At least to someone who worked at NYU while the cameras mentioned above (and their software) were being developed, and then went on to work at an actual PC manufacturer. The information about the 12 network was interesting, though.
And please contact me if you want to lease some address space in the class A I run.. the 10 network..
I can't believe this article's been posted this long and no one has mentioned the "remote chess" scene in Bladerunner. Now we just need a small projector suspended upside down over a chessboard to project the images of the pieces onto the board.
I knew there's a reason you show up as friend, fan, and friend of a friend! :) (even though the PP did screw up, as yoosyual)
Modding myself Redundant -1, but see your first replier. Public registered IPs does not imply publically visible by any means. If you can somehow print to one of IBM's network printers in an office from outside their network, they have a very big problem.
Think about manufacturing.. how many devices are IP-enabled nowadays.. now go through your list and think about companies that produce no less than millions of parts per year, and therefore have tremendous manufacturing facilities that have ip-enabled sh*t all over the place..
:)
General Electric Company - Massive production lines
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - They (not Gore) invented the 'Net
Army Information Systems Center - um, the **ARMY**
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - again
IBM - (my employer) HUGE MANUFACTURER and 300k+ (technical) employees
DoD Intel Information Systems - The Dept. of Defense
AT&T Bell Laboratories - AT&T fer chrissakes, IP *everywhere*
Xerox Corporation - Another big mfgr and computing co.
Hewlett-Packard Company - Even bigger now with Compaq
Digital Equipment Corporation - Also HPaq, ok 32 million IPs is a bit much
Apple Computer Inc. - They'll never need 16m addys
MIT - your point.. a bit much
Ford Motor Company - Back to massive manufacturing facilities worldwide
Currently IBM gives you a server that can handle up to Z work but only charges you for X, where X is the amount you actually use and Z is large enough that you can handle significant spikes.
I am currently working on one of IBM's biggest On Demand deals. You seem to know enough about IBM's On Demand initiative to know that it's not the same as HP's angle.. at all. The article specifically mentions HP hosting the equipment, as opposed to the IBM way, which is to basically perform a server consolidation onto IBM hardware hosted at the customer's site bugged to report back to IBM utilization numbers.
There are a couple more huge deals about to go public that I can't mention here, but suffice it to say, HP hasn't won, nor can they. IBM is way out front in this arena. We just kicked HP out of a place they "owned" for many years, and replaced the equipment with IOD gear on 1/10th of the number of source servers. The p690 AIX and x440 Intel servers completely rock.
We also test fired an anti-satellite laser at a satellite that was no longer in use. We were originally planning to destroy the unused satellite in the test, but other countries asked us not to do so in fear of all the little pieces flying around in orbit.
A monopoly on its own is not a bad thing. An abused monopoly is. Making the service available to everyone on the face of the earth free of charge is not exactly abusing it.
It's a total waste of money at a time when $$ is tight, AFAIC. I liken this to the time when the WINE project bragged that their API emulation was so good, even Outlook Express started getting viruses under WINE. Congrats, now you'll have your own navigation system just like the one we already let you use.
Yes, I got a great laugh out of that, too. Truth be told that the Tomohawk cruise missile uses a combination of GPS and geographic pattern matching for navigation. It takes digital pictures as its flying along and compares what it sees with what the onboard systems say it should see.
That's why the GPS blockers failed so miserably against the Tomohawks.
I just had to backlevel bogofilter from 0.11 to 0.9. I don't know WTF happened between those two revs, but the filtering algorithm went straight to hell. I had forgotten that I normally get over 100 spams a day until I went to 0.11. Then it all came back and I started losing half an hour a day to sorting out my email.
I gave it a chance for over two weeks, and it never got even close to the success rate of 0.9. Not that I'm complaining, there was nothing left to improve upon in 0.9 AFAIC. (And yes, I did see that someone decided to reverse the function performed by the -N and -S switches -- thus making my crontab edits a nightmare with troubleshooting)
So I'm now back at 0.9 and back in nirvana. It's good to be home.
I've started to enjoy PDFs recently for a couple of reasons..
a) its better for handing off documentation to customers in an unmodifiable form, especially project plans
b) its MUCH better for handing off documentation when you use document linking and dynamic charts since you don't have to hand over all of the linked documents, and the raw data behind the charts if you don't want to
c) you can freeze-dry your dynamic documentation at various checkpoints
d) I also use it to print web receipts to files (eBay payments, etc)
Before even reading the writeup, I was hoping this was going to be about someone converting one of those little green glowing night lights everyone uses to little micro access points that have a range of just a few feet.. great for apartment dwellers and security-concious people living in condos.
Sorry, Jon, these are old ideals here. With Global Services' "On Demand" initiative, we consolidate and migrate servers and applications onto new IBM and Sun gear and turn the keys back over to the company. However, the servers are now bugged to report utilization back to IBM, and IBM bills the customer based on average utilization instead of the cost of the box. No more of the typical "SO jobs" you used to always hear about where IGS just hires away failing IS divisions to revamp them.
README
Oh, and PWC's consulting arm became part of IGS last summer.
README2
How is this different from the buffer overflow protection offered by LIDS? Just asking...
You probably support the death sentence as well.
Jackass.
Nice one. Permanuked to -6 moderation.. just like that. So long.
* Transciever modules - you can easily link the two phases with a 220V dryer, and the transceiver included with ActiveHome lets you select 1 or 9 for the unit code. And I run one on an old metal 4-outlet Radio Shack power strip. Never thought it would work there, but it does.
* Lamp modules - I've bought a couple six packs of these from Smarthome and they most definitely last more than a week. Except on one outlet, come to think of it. Maybe that's your issue. I have 4 going on 2 1/2 years installed.
* Motion sensor - bad batch, I'm sure. Mine worked for over a year before i recoded MH to ignore their signals. They sit very nicely on the trim above a doorway and they do need some tweaking -- lean them forward or backward to get the coverage you want. I would regularly get over 20ft range and turn on lights in rooms when I was just passing a "T" at the end of the hall!
Word of the wise: if you process motion sensors for lights thru Misterhouse, either verify the request against "pre or post sunset" at the PC or just set the sensor to only trip in low light. Be careful, though, because setting it to trip only in low light will just move the transmitted code up by one during daylight hours!! I would walk into a bedroom during daylight hours, and the living room light would turn on behind me until I figured that one out. I moved the living room light up one, and recoded the motion sensor's "up one" code to just record a log entry of "Too bright out to turn on the bedroom light" on the Misterhouse box.
It can be rather creepy seeing a little green LED light up in the motion sensor when you're walking around during the daylight hours. You can almost hear it saying, "I see you!"
not sure why this is suddenly news.. and yes, the cheap x10 gear is exactly that. My ActiveHome controller was making the rest of the network flaky. Commands suddenly stopped executing, and when I disconnected it from the wall, all of a sudden the lamp modules would start executing all of the commands that had been building up! Lights turning off and on for a few minutes.. quite a sight to see. I also used to reboot my cablemodem every 30 mins during the early days because the performance would degrade to the point of uselessness in that time frame. I had planned to run a job to reboot the cm whenever ping times rose above a certain limit, but Comcast fixed the problem before I needed to automate that function.
:) Read or watch "Demon Seed" to see why we call the system "Alfred". Its more personable than "Proteus".
I've also been waiting for some usable code to receive button presses from my MR26A wireless receiver. Until then, my Misterhouse is one-way only.. turning on lights, either at sunset or when I'm scheduled to arrive so long as that time is between sunset and 8pm. The light in the kitchen also blinks at sunset on trash night, which is when our condo rules state we can put the trash out. I've also bought a ham radio specifically for the purpose of using the car tracking features, but I still have to pick up the PIC-E from TAPR and wire it all up.
I was just cracking my knuckles and about to dig back in to MH, too, because it already offers a tv schedule browser in grid format with "click here to record" functionality. TivoWeb lets you search the tv schedule but not browse it in grid format. I will code MH to schedule a recording on the Tivo over the LAN whenever I select a show to record from the MH grid. I have thought about getting an Audrey for that purpose in the living room.
And I, too, dream about walking through the house and have the lights and tv react appropriately. This is where the "$sleeping" variable has helped greatly -- by not having lights turn on automatically when my wife came to bed after I was asleep. No matter which light she requested to turn on, the farthest one away would turn on at 10-20% bright so as to not wake me up if the system knew/thought I was still asleep. The days of, "its okay, Alfred, I'm awake" are still a ways off, though
Oh, and something most everyone seemed to miss here, is that MH natively supports VoiceXML which means it integrates with Tell Me @ 800-555-TELL. Yes, you can call an 800 # and interact, by voice, with your home automation system totally free of charge, using text instead of voice (on the server end) and therefore significantly less horsepower. I run mine on a Pentium 75 with 48MB RAM and a thinned down RH71 or RH72 on a 1.2GB disk.