I've said in the past that I think an important use of usenet going forward will be open source patch distribution. A patch can be submitted via 56k modem to an NNTP server and it would be worldwide within hours. I've always felt that NNTP reader support should be built into rpm or apt-get, or just use something like Glitter.
Plus, passive stumblers like kismet never connect to the networks in question
That's good to know. I can't keep kismet_server to stay up longer than a few seconds unfortunately. To get around the 99 logs per day limit, I setup a loop at the command line to set the log basename to be a word of my choosing plus the current minutes and seconds after the hour therefore increasing the maximum number of capture logs per day to 360,000 (60x60x100). Then, in between restarts, I grep the SSIDs out of all the log files and sort | uniq them into a text file.
Why does this matter? I don't know really.. maybe someone knows how to stop it from crapping out every 10 to 20 seconds..
I had worked in a corporate office up until '92 where networking only consisted of NetBIOS over NetBEUI. Then, I went to work at NYU Computer Science in '93. Man, what a great place to be at that time. We had Sparcs as our office computers! I used xrn and loved killfiles:) I remember compiling Mosaic, and being blown away with what I saw.
My first project was to put the technical reports collection online for the department. Most of them were in DVI format and needed to be converted to.ps. Others were so old, that I had to scan them in and store them as God knows what. I also took an Apple Quicktake 100 around campus and made a clickable map of the campus that brought up the photos of the campus area, including the fountain in Washington Square Park.
I'm with you. I do think, however, that there must be a way to throw an ATAPI burner in the unit. I could see someone somewhere writing software that runs on the TiVo to convert streams to VCD/SVCD/DVD. However, my concern is that my HDR112 wouldn't have enough enough processing power to convert the streams. It would be nice to be able to mark a program for conversion from the now playing list, and have an indicator change to "Ready to burn" once the conversion was completed. Of course the conversion would have to be reniced to -20 or something and would take days or weeks to convert a full-length movie.
Perhaps adding a 2nd drive to the unit without marrying it would allow for conversion space.
Hey thanks, are you sure about this? I already pay $12.95 for one, but you're certain that there's only one higher, fixed price for additional tuners? If that's the case, then once I get a second tuner for my own place, I could give my in-laws their own unit and bill it to my house.
Re:gimme a break; learn to use a VCR!
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What am I missing here?
1. With DirecTiVo, you can watch one live show while recording another one. (Okay, you can do that with a VCR) With any unit (even one-tuner standalone ones), you can watch a prerecorded show while recording another one off air. You most definitely cannot do that with a VCR. I often watch a prerecorded show if I come home in the middle of a show I'm recording and I'm not in the mood to watch it at that time.
2. There are no VCRs that can store 100's of hours of programs. I'm away from home all week and have tons of shows that I like to have ready for instant playback when I get home.
3. If you come home in the middle of a recording and you want to see the show, you can start playing the show from the beginning even while the TiVo is still recording the remainder. And you get to fast forward thru the commercials to boot!
4. If you pause live tv to take a call or a shower, you get to FF thru the commercials when you return and "catch up" to live tv. Works great during auto racing and hockey games when you want to FF through slow periods. Same if you rewind and replay exciting action -- all that time is spent building up record-ahead time. Rewind and replay enough times and you will be able to FF through the commercials when you're ready to move on.
5. TiVo also displays descriptions of tv shows while you're channel surfing.
6. Since the video is not accelerated to the television, even during fast forward, the TiVo actually plays closed captions in fast forward!
7. Forget about all the networkable features such as digital extraction of content recorded at DVD quality suitable for burning to recordable media.
8. Um, profit?:)
The timeliness of /. never fails..
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Just in the last 3 weeks, I replaced the dead HDD with a 120GB Maxtor in the HDR112 I bought in February, d/l'ed and restored a pristine image to it, expanded the capacity (the right way), and just last night added TurboNet, setup telnet, ftpd, and switched the daily call over to broadband. Next week I expect to add the Linksys 802.11 bridge and move it to the big tv. I'm already thinking about starting the next project unit. This one was fun. I strongly recommend hacker-types to take this route. It is **EASY**. My unit died the night it came in from E-Bay and I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to repair it.
I also installed TivoWeb, but I expected more out of it. I thought I would be able to browse the whole tv schedule much like Yahoo! TV, but no can do. I guess I'm going to have to integrate network-based remote control of the TiVo from my Misterhouse home automation box, since it already does Yahoo! TV-style schedule browsing and "click here to record"
I'm only home on the weekends, so the TiVo is just incredible for those early Saturday mornings when I get to catch up on all the missed shows. The only disconcerting thing (and reason enough to get another one) is that when my wife and I are watching the same channel on two different tv's and we can hear each other's set, the quarter-second delay between the two tv's is unnerving.
Hey, can anyone tell me if TiVo charges *per* unit or per address for the standard services? Thanks..
dead HDR-112-$99@Ebay 120GB Maxtor (144 hours)-$99@Best Buy TurboNet-$75@9thTee TivoWeb-GPL software
Well I am so sick and tired of hearing people bitch and moan about one-sided coverage, and then seeing antiwar protests on television every night! What television are you watching that makes you think its not being covered? Or are you one of those who says, "oh, tv is bad for you, I don't have one." Well, that explains why you see so little coverage.
Don't worry, all the people who would rather see all the Iraqi children and adults continue to suffer and die at Saddam's hands are well-covered every single night. Hell, CNN even covered an anti-US demonstration that went down **IN BAGHDAD** yesterday. They were complaining that we're not getting fresh water to them quickly enough. Boy, talk about ungrateful! I'm beginning to think the antiwar left was right. We *should* have left well enough alone, and let them all suffer and die. Just a couple more gassings by Chemical Ali and the country would have just wiped itself out. But at least no American soldiers would lose their lives for an UNJUST, ILLEGAL ATTACK by the Dept of DEFENSE, right?
I use AIM on my Nextel i95cl when I'm in meetings. The only bad thing is the constant vibrating interruption every time the other party sends a message.. and some people like to send one word per message, I swear.
I also use it b/c I've been IM'ing with my friends and family for so many years and it's the only way I can talk to my peeps with unlimited anytime minutes from anywhere in the US to anywhere in the world via AIM.
Motorola phones have this interesting text input mode called T9 whereby you don't have to (for example) hit 22-wait a couple seconds for the cursor to move-2-wait a couple seconnds again-22-999 to spell out "baby". You just hit one digit for each letter, and the T9 system figures out the word you want. So 2229 spells "baby". You can hit 0 to view other alternatives if it guesses incorrectly.
It's also good in movie theaters, 'cept the screen is awfully bright.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of browsing TivoWeb to select shows for recording.. nothing like a remote that knows what's coming on for the next two weeks!!
GAIM lets you log in to all the services Jabber lets you log into, and has had a plugin that uses GPG to encrypt your text, not the protocol.
If you want to put the pieces together, GAIM now runs under Windows. GAIM-e has provided GPG integration for GAIM on Linux for a long time and was recently ported to Windows. All you need now is the GAIM-e for Windows package and GPG for Windows. If you're not inclined to use the CLI, you can use Windows Privacy Tray, a GUI wrapper for GPG for Windows now part of Windows Privacy Tools.
I've seen the Concorde from the beach at Sandy Hook, NJ many times when I was a kid, but never up close. Mom won a trip once from NYC to London, out on the Concorde, back on the QE2. Boy, was that a trip.
I've even been to and through Charles de Gaulle 10 times since September last year, but never got to see it. Knowing how amazing CDG's terminal 2F is, I've always wondered what the Concorde's concourse looks like! I guess nothing could be so severe that I need to get to a server in Paris within about 5 hours door-to-desk.:) Such is life.
Which raises a question. If you had a production Linux environment to run with hundreds of servers, even virtual runs running under VMWare ESX for example, how would you structure an environment to test patches prior to releasing them to production machines?
What code is out there to, say, mirror debian security & stable, patch some machines designated as test, then release patches to more machines designated as pilot with your approval, and finally the largest set of machines designated as production (with your approval again)?
Either don't run it as a daemon, or bind it to 127.0.0.1, if you need better performance (like on a big webserver).
Sendmail installs in RH (maybe more) have been configured exactly this way since 7.3 or earlier. May have been 7.2. During my 4-day RHCE class, I actually had to show the class (and instructor) how the default install was changed to INCLUDE a line in sendmail.cf causing sendmail to only bind to lo. Otherwise, without that line, sendmail will bind to all interfaces. I think it was a great idea for improving security without reducing functionality for end users.
Excellent timing yet again for an article related to something I wanted to ask this crowd about.
I just moved into a new office, and the customer left behind a detached Cisco IP phone tossed in the corner. What free software options do I have to put this puppy into service? Best I could find so far was that I need to run Cisco CallManager on the network. I was hoping to find that the proprietary protocol has been cracked and is supported by Gatekeeper or something. So far, no such luck.
Naked Lunch - with Roy Scheider (not so much a gadget film)
Videodrome - Deborah Harry
and my #1 favorite movie of all time..
Brainstorm (1983) - with Christopher Walken. When visiting Kitty Hawk, I had my wife take pictures of me by the same bust of one of the Wright brothers featured in one of the "memory bubbles"
I consulted on a deal to help NJSP patch the Win98 laptops installed in their cruisers. Apparently they too have a 19.2k link statewide, but have a higher bandwidth microwave link available when the cars are very close to the station houses. We built routines to pull down packages by ftp over the microwave link when they turned on the car and booted the laptop.
Actually, couldn't they just have a webserver on board, and cache several sites
Continental Airlines does this today with the help of Verizon. Verizon pushes content a la BackWeb to the airplane via satellite. You with your laptop will jack into the armrest phone and attempt to dial *any* phone number. The on-board server captures your phone call and keeps you in the on-board server. They say you can do AIM and pop3, but no web surfing or SMTP yet. Web content is updated every 15 minutes. (Can you pipe a proxy server over AIM if you own the far end? Slow, I know, but hey.)
I just flew from Glasgow to Newark, NJ in business class and had a LONG time to read the card advertising the service. $5.99USD covers the cost for the entire flight.
Just like MSN, they have a media blitz going on. I chatted with a presenter at the NY Hilton, and he said that that Centrino is a new wireless technology that is based on 802.11.
"Do they have a PCMCIA card yet?" "No, but they expect to soon."
Then I read this. You can also try out free 802.11 at 10 different McDonald's locations in NYC with the purchase of a Big Mac or McNuggets.
You had me right up to the end, when your "insightful for a candadian" ranting dissolved into images of a city full of Mexican hookers on every corner. Which really isn't too far off from reality in LOS ANGELES.
How will the smart kids get around this? Perhaps finding students with no computer and negotiating to let them hook up some kind of wireless solution so they can use their bandwidth as well.
How about pooling the bandwidth by setting up load-balancing proxy servers.. use dyndns to load up all the ip's in a DNS A record (or CNAME-like collector--whatever), and once the monthly xfer limit is approached by a box, remove it from the round-robin list. It can all be scripted with a nice plain web page (think "analog") displaying the aggregrate amount of bandwidth remaining for the current billing period.
To join the club, you need to contribute one of those 200GB Western Digital drives to a community server, that also mirrors debian and redhat.:)
Slashdot Mirror
I've said in the past that I think an important use of usenet going forward will be open source patch distribution. A patch can be submitted via 56k modem to an NNTP server and it would be worldwide within hours. I've always felt that NNTP reader support should be built into rpm or apt-get, or just use something like Glitter.
Plus, passive stumblers like kismet never connect to the networks in question
That's good to know. I can't keep kismet_server to stay up longer than a few seconds unfortunately. To get around the 99 logs per day limit, I setup a loop at the command line to set the log basename to be a word of my choosing plus the current minutes and seconds after the hour therefore increasing the maximum number of capture logs per day to 360,000 (60x60x100). Then, in between restarts, I grep the SSIDs out of all the log files and sort | uniq them into a text file.
Why does this matter? I don't know really.. maybe someone knows how to stop it from crapping out every 10 to 20 seconds..
Obligatory link to the Steve Albini article she ripped it from.
The Problem with Music
She once tried to slap David Gedge of The Wedding Present backstage because she heard he was friends with Albini.
The acronymn WINE explicitly states that it isn't so.
and LAME ain't an MP3 encoder, either.
Oh wait. Yes it is.
(I know, I know, in this case it is.. blah blah blah don't go by the name blah blah blah)
I had worked in a corporate office up until '92 where networking only consisted of NetBIOS over NetBEUI. Then, I went to work at NYU Computer Science in '93. Man, what a great place to be at that time. We had Sparcs as our office computers! I used xrn and loved killfiles :) I remember compiling Mosaic, and being blown away with what I saw.
.ps. Others were so old, that I had to scan them in and store them as God knows what. I also took an Apple Quicktake 100 around campus and made a clickable map of the campus that brought up the photos of the campus area, including the fountain in Washington Square Park.
My first project was to put the technical reports collection online for the department. Most of them were in DVI format and needed to be converted to
Fun times, fun times.
I'm with you. I do think, however, that there must be a way to throw an ATAPI burner in the unit. I could see someone somewhere writing software that runs on the TiVo to convert streams to VCD/SVCD/DVD. However, my concern is that my HDR112 wouldn't have enough enough processing power to convert the streams. It would be nice to be able to mark a program for conversion from the now playing list, and have an indicator change to "Ready to burn" once the conversion was completed. Of course the conversion would have to be reniced to -20 or something and would take days or weeks to convert a full-length movie.
Perhaps adding a 2nd drive to the unit without marrying it would allow for conversion space.
Hey thanks, are you sure about this? I already pay $12.95 for one, but you're certain that there's only one higher, fixed price for additional tuners? If that's the case, then once I get a second tuner for my own place, I could give my in-laws their own unit and bill it to my house.
What am I missing here?
:)
1. With DirecTiVo, you can watch one live show while recording another one. (Okay, you can do that with a VCR) With any unit (even one-tuner standalone ones), you can watch a prerecorded show while recording another one off air. You most definitely cannot do that with a VCR. I often watch a prerecorded show if I come home in the middle of a show I'm recording and I'm not in the mood to watch it at that time.
2. There are no VCRs that can store 100's of hours of programs. I'm away from home all week and have tons of shows that I like to have ready for instant playback when I get home.
3. If you come home in the middle of a recording and you want to see the show, you can start playing the show from the beginning even while the TiVo is still recording the remainder. And you get to fast forward thru the commercials to boot!
4. If you pause live tv to take a call or a shower, you get to FF thru the commercials when you return and "catch up" to live tv. Works great during auto racing and hockey games when you want to FF through slow periods. Same if you rewind and replay exciting action -- all that time is spent building up record-ahead time. Rewind and replay enough times and you will be able to FF through the commercials when you're ready to move on.
5. TiVo also displays descriptions of tv shows while you're channel surfing.
6. Since the video is not accelerated to the television, even during fast forward, the TiVo actually plays closed captions in fast forward!
7. Forget about all the networkable features such as digital extraction of content recorded at DVD quality suitable for burning to recordable media.
8. Um, profit?
Just in the last 3 weeks, I replaced the dead HDD with a 120GB Maxtor in the HDR112 I bought in February, d/l'ed and restored a pristine image to it, expanded the capacity (the right way), and just last night added TurboNet, setup telnet, ftpd, and switched the daily call over to broadband. Next week I expect to add the Linksys 802.11 bridge and move it to the big tv. I'm already thinking about starting the next project unit. This one was fun. I strongly recommend hacker-types to take this route. It is **EASY**. My unit died the night it came in from E-Bay and I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to repair it.
I also installed TivoWeb, but I expected more out of it. I thought I would be able to browse the whole tv schedule much like Yahoo! TV, but no can do. I guess I'm going to have to integrate network-based remote control of the TiVo from my Misterhouse home automation box, since it already does Yahoo! TV-style schedule browsing and "click here to record"
I'm only home on the weekends, so the TiVo is just incredible for those early Saturday mornings when I get to catch up on all the missed shows. The only disconcerting thing (and reason enough to get another one) is that when my wife and I are watching the same channel on two different tv's and we can hear each other's set, the quarter-second delay between the two tv's is unnerving.
Hey, can anyone tell me if TiVo charges *per* unit or per address for the standard services? Thanks..
dead HDR-112-$99@Ebay
120GB Maxtor (144 hours)-$99@Best Buy
TurboNet-$75@9thTee
TivoWeb-GPL software
Well I am so sick and tired of hearing people bitch and moan about one-sided coverage, and then seeing antiwar protests on television every night! What television are you watching that makes you think its not being covered? Or are you one of those who says, "oh, tv is bad for you, I don't have one." Well, that explains why you see so little coverage.
Don't worry, all the people who would rather see all the Iraqi children and adults continue to suffer and die at Saddam's hands are well-covered every single night. Hell, CNN even covered an anti-US demonstration that went down **IN BAGHDAD** yesterday. They were complaining that we're not getting fresh water to them quickly enough. Boy, talk about ungrateful! I'm beginning to think the antiwar left was right. We *should* have left well enough alone, and let them all suffer and die. Just a couple more gassings by Chemical Ali and the country would have just wiped itself out. But at least no American soldiers would lose their lives for an UNJUST, ILLEGAL ATTACK by the Dept of DEFENSE, right?
sizzle karma sizzle
I use AIM on my Nextel i95cl when I'm in meetings. The only bad thing is the constant vibrating interruption every time the other party sends a message.. and some people like to send one word per message, I swear.
I also use it b/c I've been IM'ing with my friends and family for so many years and it's the only way I can talk to my peeps with unlimited anytime minutes from anywhere in the US to anywhere in the world via AIM.
Motorola phones have this interesting text input mode called T9 whereby you don't have to (for example) hit 22-wait a couple seconds for the cursor to move-2-wait a couple seconnds again-22-999 to spell out "baby". You just hit one digit for each letter, and the T9 system figures out the word you want. So 2229 spells "baby". You can hit 0 to view other alternatives if it guesses incorrectly.
It's also good in movie theaters, 'cept the screen is awfully bright.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of browsing TivoWeb to select shows for recording.. nothing like a remote that knows what's coming on for the next two weeks!!
GAIM lets you log in to all the services Jabber lets you log into, and has had a plugin that uses GPG to encrypt your text, not the protocol.
If you want to put the pieces together, GAIM now runs under Windows. GAIM-e has provided GPG integration for GAIM on Linux for a long time and was recently ported to Windows. All you need now is the GAIM-e for Windows package and GPG for Windows. If you're not inclined to use the CLI, you can use Windows Privacy Tray, a GUI wrapper for GPG for Windows now part of Windows Privacy Tools.
GAIM
GAIM-e
GAIM-e for Windows
Windows Privacy Tools
I've seen the Concorde from the beach at Sandy Hook, NJ many times when I was a kid, but never up close. Mom won a trip once from NYC to London, out on the Concorde, back on the QE2. Boy, was that a trip.
:) Such is life.
I've even been to and through Charles de Gaulle 10 times since September last year, but never got to see it. Knowing how amazing CDG's terminal 2F is, I've always wondered what the Concorde's concourse looks like! I guess nothing could be so severe that I need to get to a server in Paris within about 5 hours door-to-desk.
As a operating room scene is playing on MST3K..
Tom Servo: "Well, I might as well install a SCSI port while I'm in here."
Which raises a question. If you had a production Linux environment to run with hundreds of servers, even virtual runs running under VMWare ESX for example, how would you structure an environment to test patches prior to releasing them to production machines?
What code is out there to, say, mirror debian security & stable, patch some machines designated as test, then release patches to more machines designated as pilot with your approval, and finally the largest set of machines designated as production (with your approval again)?
Thanks..
Either don't run it as a daemon, or bind it to 127.0.0.1, if you need better performance (like on a big webserver).
Sendmail installs in RH (maybe more) have been configured exactly this way since 7.3 or earlier. May have been 7.2. During my 4-day RHCE class, I actually had to show the class (and instructor) how the default install was changed to INCLUDE a line in sendmail.cf causing sendmail to only bind to lo. Otherwise, without that line, sendmail will bind to all interfaces. I think it was a great idea for improving security without reducing functionality for end users.
Excellent timing yet again for an article related to something I wanted to ask this crowd about.
/.ers!
I just moved into a new office, and the customer left behind a detached Cisco IP phone tossed in the corner. What free software options do I have to put this puppy into service? Best I could find so far was that I need to run Cisco CallManager on the network. I was hoping to find that the proprietary protocol has been cracked and is supported by Gatekeeper or something. So far, no such luck.
This unit is a 12 SP+. What can I do with it?
Thanks
Hey, thanks! Not being sarcastic, I had no idea.. looking at this I didn't realize how many of his films I did like.
I forgot about Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, and Scanners, too. I used to watch Dead Ringers daily..
"Fuck off, you freaks! I'm telling my mother you talk dirty, and I happen to know for a fact that you don't even know what 'fuck' means!"
Until the End of the World - done by Wim Wenders
Naked Lunch - with Roy Scheider (not so much a gadget film)
Videodrome - Deborah Harry
and my #1 favorite movie of all time..
Brainstorm (1983) - with Christopher Walken. When visiting Kitty Hawk, I had my wife take pictures of me by the same bust of one of the Wright brothers featured in one of the "memory bubbles"
I consulted on a deal to help NJSP patch the Win98 laptops installed in their cruisers. Apparently they too have a 19.2k link statewide, but have a higher bandwidth microwave link available when the cars are very close to the station houses. We built routines to pull down packages by ftp over the microwave link when they turned on the car and booted the laptop.
Actually, couldn't they just have a webserver on board, and cache several sites
Continental Airlines does this today with the help of Verizon. Verizon pushes content a la BackWeb to the airplane via satellite. You with your laptop will jack into the armrest phone and attempt to dial *any* phone number. The on-board server captures your phone call and keeps you in the on-board server. They say you can do AIM and pop3, but no web surfing or SMTP yet. Web content is updated every 15 minutes. (Can you pipe a proxy server over AIM if you own the far end? Slow, I know, but hey.)
I just flew from Glasgow to Newark, NJ in business class and had a LONG time to read the card advertising the service. $5.99USD covers the cost for the entire flight.
Just like MSN, they have a media blitz going on. I chatted with a presenter at the NY Hilton, and he said that that Centrino is a new wireless technology that is based on 802.11.
"Do they have a PCMCIA card yet?"
"No, but they expect to soon."
Then I read this. You can also try out free 802.11 at 10 different McDonald's locations in NYC with the purchase of a Big Mac or McNuggets.
surpassed only by Las Angelas and New York...
You had me right up to the end, when your "insightful for a candadian" ranting dissolved into images of a city full of Mexican hookers on every corner. Which really isn't too far off from reality in LOS ANGELES.
Thanks for the laugh.
How will the smart kids get around this? Perhaps finding students with no computer and negotiating to let them hook up some kind of wireless solution so they can use their bandwidth as well.
:)
How about pooling the bandwidth by setting up load-balancing proxy servers.. use dyndns to load up all the ip's in a DNS A record (or CNAME-like collector--whatever), and once the monthly xfer limit is approached by a box, remove it from the round-robin list. It can all be scripted with a nice plain web page (think "analog") displaying the aggregrate amount of bandwidth remaining for the current billing period.
To join the club, you need to contribute one of those 200GB Western Digital drives to a community server, that also mirrors debian and redhat.