There have been plenty of suggestions here for automatically ripping CDs, but for command line software to run on a server
* jack from http://jack.sf.net, mentioned previously as a highly configurable excellent ripper in a python script * slimserver from http://slimdevices.com, mentioned 1,000 times but no one mentioned all in one posting that the server software is freely downloadable, you can point any streaming client at it, like winamp, and that the slimserver has its own internal web server; if the article submitter doesn't know how to port forward over SSH, well.. * mp3blaster with mserve - I haven't seen this little beauty mentioned once. Check THIS out.. the server is console-mode full-screen (use 'screen' to log out of a box and keep a full-screen app running), but the real beauty is that everyone loads a tiny agent in windows, and everyone gets to rate whatever song is currently playing. Then the system keeps track of everyone's preferences and *dynamically* updates the playlist so that only songs everyone likes are queued up (well, everyone who's currently logged in).
Originally intended for small offices with music throughout, mp3blaster is a console mode app that kicks off mp3s one at at time through a player of your choice, so it can use mpg123 or xmms or whatever. It can even use netcat "nc" to send the play command to your slimserver. As an aside, if I don't feel like using the Shoutcast plugin on my Slimp3, I use an older copy of Streamtuner, configured to use netcat to tune into Shoutcast streams.
Remember, you can do all of the Slimserver stuff we talk about totally for free and just buy whatever Slimdevice you decide you want, when you want it or can afford it. Put the infrastructure in place now! There's even a java emulator of the squeezebox and another of the remote!! Finally, I gave my father-in-law a Squeezebox as a thanks for replacing my hot water heater after it exploded on a Sunday afternoon, and he loves it. He bought wireless speakers for poolside and a PC off eBay to dedicate to the server and music library. We have collected 55GB so far and the box has 180GB capacity. We also do rsync replication between our homes.
I've told her on numerous occasions.. "look, I don't care if I end up as just a brain in a jar with thousands of wires coming out of it, I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!" Besides, with the CCD retinas out now that inject data directly into the optic nerve, it'll be just a matter of time before vision can be completely maintained for the sighted. We could end up in labs, just rows and rows of brains in jars, all wired up and experiencing artificial vision and life experiences presented by some massive computer system. Gee I wonder where I've heard THAT before.
Just get the i730 serial cord and then a belkin serial-to-usb adapter. i have nav in the murano, but its a real bear to get an NMEA stream out of it. I use my i730 for Airsnort work, since my laptop doesn't have serial either (t41).
Why did I have to refresh half a dozen times to get the page to come up? "Nothing to see here. Move along." I know others have seen it, but I guess I didn't take them seriously.
Exactly. I just got this box from Comcast a few weeks ago, and I'm reading this like, WTF? As you said, the DTV channels are gorgeous, too. Its like watching NFL on Fox and Monday Night Football for the first time.
And don't forget, these boxes ship with firewire turned on! As the tv tech was flipping through the setup screens, I saw "IEEE-1394: On" and was like "WHOA!" He said, "oh, if you want to capture shows to a PC, just hook it up to these [firewire] ports back here." And that includes pulling off shows from the PVR.
The biggest problem is that the PVR functionality sucks compared even to my 1st gen TiVO. Getting a 'season pass' means searching for a show by name, viewing each episode currently in the guide and scheduling a recording. Someone out there has hacked up a web-based scheduler for this box, but it is a real hack in every sense of the word.
Honestly though, I feel bad for anyone who thinks HDTV "isn't ready". They really don't know what they're missing. Hell, for $130/mo for HDTV/PVR and hi-speed, it BETTER be awesome.
Couple Stern with the NFL, and it is looking good for Sirius
Couldn't have said it better myself. As a side note, I've heard conflicting reports about whether or not Sirius charges to stream their channels over the Internet. Which is it? Anyone? All that's left is the radio head unit that transfers between the car and boombox.
why would you want to find a safe vaccine for a disease which has been officially eradicated?
Its obviously a little dated, but.... this distributed computing project allows researchers to swing processing power between the two projects (there are actually 2 in there). I lost my Dad to cancer, and my wife lost 4 family members (ages 19 to 50) and is expected to lose a 43 year old aunt this year to breast cancer. My wife constantly checks to make sure we're running this screensaver as much as possible. If the time comes that we face a biological attack of smallpox (specifically because it is eradicated and because no one's vaccination is effective anymore) I would want to know that we helped discover a vaccination out that doesn't kill, what, 1 out of 20 recipients of the vaccination.
Finally, it was one of IBM's earliest grid projects and I work in a small section of IBM Global Services that brings grid and On Demand offerings to our customers. I would like to be able to bring this to customers who want to capture spare CPU cycles across hundreds or thousands of desktops companywide and turn that into a huge virtual batch queue. I'm doing my part to continue to bring usage data to IBM and help improve the offering. It directly benefits cancer research, protection of the public, and my job.
Oh, also I switched to this sig after someone tracked me down back when I used a sig I've used elsewhere to spam me about his company's offerings that matched a wishlist I posted here. I needed to put something different, so I think its worth it.
That's funny, I was going to post that in the eastern US, its called a "California Slide" or "California Cruise" and on the west coast, it's called a "Jersey Stop".
I'm about to move ahead on my carputer project and have thought about building an in-car video e-card function with one of those pencil-sized video cameras used by so many reality shows (think Blind Date). I've also wondered about what I would like to be able to do by pointing the camera out the front windshield. A 5-minute TiVO-like buffer comes to mind for times when I witness car accidents. Finding computer vision applications is something else, and I often wonder how difficult it would be to analyze a frame and look for a specific pattern (i.e. one of the standardized US speed limit signs).
I've also considered a GPS-based screensaver that automatically hides the display with XMMS visualizations once I exceed a certain speed (30mph or so). If anyone remembers F15 Strike Eagle on the C64, I would display a big red on black flashing OVERSPEED every time I exceed 100mph.
This discussion has [..] not at all commented on whether there is business need for a utility/on-demand/adaptive architecture
That's because most/.ers would have no idea what we would be talking about if we had that discussion here. I've said for years that if there's a place on the web that's like/. but attracts more (employed) IT consultants and folks in the trenches than high school and college kids, I'd like to know where it is.
Yes, while we have forged a great relationship with Cisco (I consult at one of the first sites to deploy Cisco directors, and we're about to deploy IBM's SVC - the Cisco blade version), this is a "pipes vs water" discussion. Cisco doesn't make servers. They route data. Do one thing and do it well. Unless they suddenly decide to package some kind of whittled-down servlet engine to enable ebiz environments for the SMB market, I think they'll leave that game to those who have been doing it for nearly a decade. Its not like its a concept that's still in its infancy and the direction is still being decided. Blade servers are full Intel or RISC servers in a micro-pizza box configuration with custom connectors and not much more. And who knows, maybe one day a vendor will release blade servers designed to plug into a Cisco chassis with 10Gbit networking. Hard to do failover across core routers that way, but hey, its a thought.
Finally, yes, there is a huge business need for On Demand. Of course, its difficult to get into preaching about On Demand without being labeled a "marketdroid", "shill", or "parrot". On Demand is much more about business consulting that IT consulting. Its about rediscovering what your business was born to do. Its about collecting and organizing all of your corporate data and using open architectures to invent new ways of looking at that data, and selling views of that data back to your business units -- the consumers of that data. Its about stripping IT out of the ivory towers (leaving just the business functions behind) and using open methods for selling it back to the towers in useful new ways they've never dreamed of before - gaining new insight into and linkages with other related divisions, their customers, suppliers, and business partners. When my family asks what kind of work I do, I usually explain that for the last 20 years, computers have been used to take jobs away from people. Well, for the next 20, I am helping to develop new business processes that were never previously possible due to the "processing limitations" of human beings.
Check out what I've been getting trained on this summer: Virtualization Engine Its a manager for your ebiz environment that tells you whether or not your stated business goals are being met, and uses ARM instrumentation to tell you where your sequence is underperforming. Its really quite amazing all the technologies that have been brought under the VE umbrella. And unlike HP, our product manages ebiz apps running on RISC (pSeries and iSeries) and Intel, across AIX, i5/OS, Windows, and Linux on all those platforms. The mainframe has had incredible levels of workload management for years and is being incorporated into this strategy. I hope this answers some of your questions or clarifies some things for you.
I might start listening to more NPR too, since I've had bad luck listening to their Internet broadcasts
Have you checked Shoutcast lately? Remember the old days when, in order to get NPR via streaming MP3 you had to look up a station at current.org that streams in MP3? Well, after the McDonald's hieress died and donated what, a trizillion dollars to NPR, they can be found on Shoutcast with like 56 of 157628 listeners! Your troubled NPR streaming days are over. (Just checked, and they are currently at 0/96669 listeners at 56k.)
Come on, people, get on those streams! Let's show their appreciation for this effort. No more WUGA, WPSU, WRDU, or WDET for me.
This is why/. is a great site for hobbyists and newbies. All you had to say for those with actual work experience is "AOL adds RSA keyfob support". I can almost make a necklace out my expired ones.
At install time for gaim, you can choose to install Bluecurve, at least one other theme whose name escapes me, or no theme at all. Back at 0.77 (I believe), there was a big problem with the themes causing ugly crashes, and since the "no theme" install looks like a win95 app (and I reset my XP desktop to the win2k theme), I lose absolutely nothing by specifically choosing to not install a theme. One place I do like to play with themes is the GDM login screen. I especially like the Lower Manhattan theme from themes.org.
I'm with you. My company laptop came with 1.6GHz/512MB/60GB. Its funny seeing folks complain about an extra 3MB or so. But anyway, sometimes I'm reminded of the old days of OSS when I get into discussions about IM. I can't tell you how often I hear myself plugging gaim. You'd think after all these years, I'd give up trying to convert people! Its free, looks the same on Linux & Windows, lets me use Jabber running on some Linux box with non-root privs, and lets me encrypt all my chats the same way regardless of the network I use. It really has been a staple of mine for so many years. I'm in the process of blocking AIM, Yahoo! and MSN chat ports and replacing them with gaim and Jabber (and all its gateways) for a middle school I'm taking care of. Will get them ready for switching to k12ltsp.
I subscribe to gaim and gaim-encryption file releases from sourceforge, and gaim-encryption usually follows each gaim release by about a week. Oh, and I never load any themes because I use it for utility, not eye candy.
You do realize that there's absolutely no way you'll get through 80GB of music OR video on a single battery charge?
You do realize that people don't load each day's music selection into their iPods as part of their morning rituals, don't you? Why do you think you have to watch/listen to your entire collection in a single charge?? Plug it in when you get home at night, unplug and take it with you in the morning. Listen to whatever subset of your collection you want during the day.
Exactly. This reminded me of two things. First, the research work someone did to convert network bandwidth to a filesystem. He turned ping payloads into low-latency storage and intentionally malformed emails (bad recipient) to Exchange servers as high-latency storage.
At the time, Exchange was the only server to include the entire body of the failed email in the bounce message, and you could keep the connection open idefinitely with about a packet a minute. Then once you closed the connection, the server would turn around and shoot your file (well, email) back to you.
Second, all this seems perfect for LUFS where they say, "remember, everything's a file -- and if it's not, it should be!"
I don't see why a thermostat NEEDS to be network enabled
I would like to try to save money by doing predictive HVAC. By knowing in advance what the outside temp and humidity is supposed to be, it is supposedly much cheaper to cool off a place early by running AC before the high heat of the day hits. Also, my wife likes to keep the place much warmer than I do. By integrating position reporting for my car (APRS/TAPR), the house could know when I'm half an hour away and start adjusting the temperature to my liking. Finally, my wife and I like to get away quite often, so in the summer I hold the temperature up pretty high while we're away. I usually ask my in-laws to hit "resume" on the thermostat to get back into the normal cooling cycle a day before we get home. As others have said, it would be easy to do it by cellphone, but as I mentioned, I would prefer to just have the house know where I am.
If you've ever looked into getting current ambient temperature and thermostat controls in and out of a PC, you'd see how convoluted it is. If home builders could just automatically run CAT5 to every room, every major appliance and every cable tv outlet, things would be much easier down the road.
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upgrading things like storage space is critical. Being able to expand RAID arrays (etc)"
This just struck me as weird, as I'm on the tail end of a 2+ year server consolidation project and we now have over 40TB on SAN. We buy servers with 2 hot plug bays and a RAID controller. "Storage" is something that appears on the box after we submit some paperwork! Your comment should read, "extremely predictable (or modern) environment".
With dozens of VMWare servers and a few blade chassis, we (well, the cabling group) has to actually touch some sort of cable only once every two dozen server builds or so. The ancient art of "racking and jacking" is becoming more like "copy a 4GB file" and "drag a drop a MAC address on an OS build profile."
2. No, I bought it pre-built. Did you include in your time estimate how long it took Philips or Sony to assemble your box? No. Of course not. I added an ethernet card to my TiVO and a TV card to my Myth experiment. Its a wash.
3. Okay, so you have 1/10th the features that Myth offers.
4. MythTV is not a viable alternative for 99.99% -- I'm *really* not trying to argue, but I sure hate it when people use that figure. As if you're in a position to say.
5. its not a real option for replacing Tivo until I can order a MythTV box for the same price -- Not a real option for you. Granted.
6. If I was in college and had lots of free time to screw with things, I'd be all over it, too. -- Don't know where that one came from. I'm usually the one throwing the "call me when you graduate, kiddo" line. Maybe you thought I had an extra digit on my UID or something (and forgot that UIDs around 500k graduated 3 years ago). I mean, I respect your seniority, but you only predate me by about a year. Sorry, we're both/. geezers like it or not.
Thanks for the dialog. I only hope you see things are better than you remember. I experimented with it. It worked out of the box. I bought the PC to be an ESX Server so I had to blow it away and move on. I guess I am a "one in ten thousand" kinda guy.
Just to keep the facts straight, I spent $500, did absolutely zero research, dug up a dusty old Hauppauge WinTV PCI card, and it "just worked" (TM). Only after that did I spend time trying to get it working by hand because I wanted to know how it worked. Nothing about days or weeks spent setting it up. Just boot up, choose the option to reformat and install on the PC, let it install, enter my zip code, choose my cable provider, and I had a PVR in 30 minutes that also had news headlines and a local weather radar loop as a screen saver. So no, its not hard to compete with your TiVO setup time. Not at all.
And after 2 1/2 years, the two will cross each other at cost effectiveness. A LOT sooner if you order the home media option for your TiVO to get half of what Myth offers.
And I do have a tricked out TiVO so I didn't keep Myth. I am planning on going back, though, since I need a content server for my CarPC project. Just saying, don't be so dismissive. KnoppMyth works very, very well and is quite easy to setup.
If you ever decide to drop your TiVO subscription and centralize your capture efforts and media collection, MythTV is really the way to go. I, too, have gone through the nightmare of trying to get it to work. BUT -- someone has made a working Knoppix-based Myth installer, called KnoppMyth. You boot up raw hardware (no OS needed) off this CD and it takes it from there. Basically converts any PC with a tv capture card and s-video out into a tricked out no-sub TiVO. Try it sometime. You might be impressed.
When they tried to board, after presenting identification several of them were red flagged by CAPPS. Unfortunately nothing was done with that information
Please stop spreading this misinformation. The entire purpose of the CAPPS system was to guarantee that flagged passengers are on a plane before their baggage is loaded. This system was developed in response to Pan Am 108 which was destroyed by a bomb in a checked ghetto blaster, placed on board by the bomber who failed to board the flight. You have repeatedly said the government did nothing for the passengers flagged by CAPPS, when in fact they followed 100% of the procedures ordered by that system. Policymakers just never believed that someone would execute a suicide hijacking, let alone four simultaneously. Judging by your multiple posts, you really do need to read the commission report.
And if you did read it, read it again. If you can trust a government commission long enough to sit through its report, it's a very interesting read.
Such as Sequent, who sorta doesn't exist any more...
Ouch, I'll pass that on to all my co-workers with/Beaverton/IBM in their Notes email addresses! We IBMers are very grateful to Sequent for their NUMA contributions. It really took us to the next level in flexibility and scalability, and helped secure our lead in server shipments well into the future. Paired up with our newest developments in Power5, and our "run Linux on everything" philosophy, I'd say we have a pretty good server family.
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There have been plenty of suggestions here for automatically ripping CDs, but for command line software to run on a server
* jack from http://jack.sf.net, mentioned previously as a highly configurable excellent ripper in a python script
* slimserver from http://slimdevices.com, mentioned 1,000 times but no one mentioned all in one posting that the server software is freely downloadable, you can point any streaming client at it, like winamp, and that the slimserver has its own internal web server; if the article submitter doesn't know how to port forward over SSH, well..
* mp3blaster with mserve - I haven't seen this little beauty mentioned once. Check THIS out.. the server is console-mode full-screen (use 'screen' to log out of a box and keep a full-screen app running), but the real beauty is that everyone loads a tiny agent in windows, and everyone gets to rate whatever song is currently playing. Then the system keeps track of everyone's preferences and *dynamically* updates the playlist so that only songs everyone likes are queued up (well, everyone who's currently logged in).
Originally intended for small offices with music throughout, mp3blaster is a console mode app that kicks off mp3s one at at time through a player of your choice, so it can use mpg123 or xmms or whatever. It can even use netcat "nc" to send the play command to your slimserver. As an aside, if I don't feel like using the Shoutcast plugin on my Slimp3, I use an older copy of Streamtuner, configured to use netcat to tune into Shoutcast streams.
Remember, you can do all of the Slimserver stuff we talk about totally for free and just buy whatever Slimdevice you decide you want, when you want it or can afford it. Put the infrastructure in place now! There's even a java emulator of the squeezebox and another of the remote!! Finally, I gave my father-in-law a Squeezebox as a thanks for replacing my hot water heater after it exploded on a Sunday afternoon, and he loves it. He bought wireless speakers for poolside and a PC off eBay to dedicate to the server and music library. We have collected 55GB so far and the box has 180GB capacity. We also do rsync replication between our homes.
I've told her on numerous occasions.. "look, I don't care if I end up as just a brain in a jar with thousands of wires coming out of it, I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!" Besides, with the CCD retinas out now that inject data directly into the optic nerve, it'll be just a matter of time before vision can be completely maintained for the sighted. We could end up in labs, just rows and rows of brains in jars, all wired up and experiencing artificial vision and life experiences presented by some massive computer system. Gee I wonder where I've heard THAT before.
Come on! Who's with me!?!?!
Just get the i730 serial cord and then a belkin serial-to-usb adapter. i have nav in the murano, but its a real bear to get an NMEA stream out of it. I use my i730 for Airsnort work, since my laptop doesn't have serial either (t41).
Why did I have to refresh half a dozen times to get the page to come up? "Nothing to see here. Move along." I know others have seen it, but I guess I didn't take them seriously.
Exactly. I just got this box from Comcast a few weeks ago, and I'm reading this like, WTF? As you said, the DTV channels are gorgeous, too. Its like watching NFL on Fox and Monday Night Football for the first time.
And don't forget, these boxes ship with firewire turned on! As the tv tech was flipping through the setup screens, I saw "IEEE-1394: On" and was like "WHOA!" He said, "oh, if you want to capture shows to a PC, just hook it up to these [firewire] ports back here." And that includes pulling off shows from the PVR.
The biggest problem is that the PVR functionality sucks compared even to my 1st gen TiVO. Getting a 'season pass' means searching for a show by name, viewing each episode currently in the guide and scheduling a recording. Someone out there has hacked up a web-based scheduler for this box, but it is a real hack in every sense of the word.
Honestly though, I feel bad for anyone who thinks HDTV "isn't ready". They really don't know what they're missing. Hell, for $130/mo for HDTV/PVR and hi-speed, it BETTER be awesome.
Couple Stern with the NFL, and it is looking good for Sirius
Couldn't have said it better myself. As a side note, I've heard conflicting reports about whether or not Sirius charges to stream their channels over the Internet. Which is it? Anyone? All that's left is the radio head unit that transfers between the car and boombox.
why would you want to find a safe vaccine for a disease which has been officially eradicated?
Its obviously a little dated, but.... this distributed computing project allows researchers to swing processing power between the two projects (there are actually 2 in there). I lost my Dad to cancer, and my wife lost 4 family members (ages 19 to 50) and is expected to lose a 43 year old aunt this year to breast cancer. My wife constantly checks to make sure we're running this screensaver as much as possible. If the time comes that we face a biological attack of smallpox (specifically because it is eradicated and because no one's vaccination is effective anymore) I would want to know that we helped discover a vaccination out that doesn't kill, what, 1 out of 20 recipients of the vaccination.
Finally, it was one of IBM's earliest grid projects and I work in a small section of IBM Global Services that brings grid and On Demand offerings to our customers. I would like to be able to bring this to customers who want to capture spare CPU cycles across hundreds or thousands of desktops companywide and turn that into a huge virtual batch queue. I'm doing my part to continue to bring usage data to IBM and help improve the offering. It directly benefits cancer research, protection of the public, and my job.
Oh, also I switched to this sig after someone tracked me down back when I used a sig I've used elsewhere to spam me about his company's offerings that matched a wishlist I posted here. I needed to put something different, so I think its worth it.
Here in America, it's called a "California stop"
That's funny, I was going to post that in the eastern US, its called a "California Slide" or "California Cruise" and on the west coast, it's called a "Jersey Stop".
I'm about to move ahead on my carputer project and have thought about building an in-car video e-card function with one of those pencil-sized video cameras used by so many reality shows (think Blind Date). I've also wondered about what I would like to be able to do by pointing the camera out the front windshield. A 5-minute TiVO-like buffer comes to mind for times when I witness car accidents. Finding computer vision applications is something else, and I often wonder how difficult it would be to analyze a frame and look for a specific pattern (i.e. one of the standardized US speed limit signs).
I've also considered a GPS-based screensaver that automatically hides the display with XMMS visualizations once I exceed a certain speed (30mph or so). If anyone remembers F15 Strike Eagle on the C64, I would display a big red on black flashing OVERSPEED every time I exceed 100mph.
This discussion has [..] not at all commented on whether there is business need for a utility/on-demand/adaptive architecture
/.ers would have no idea what we would be talking about if we had that discussion here. I've said for years that if there's a place on the web that's like /. but attracts more (employed) IT consultants and folks in the trenches than high school and college kids, I'd like to know where it is.
That's because most
Yes, while we have forged a great relationship with Cisco (I consult at one of the first sites to deploy Cisco directors, and we're about to deploy IBM's SVC - the Cisco blade version), this is a "pipes vs water" discussion. Cisco doesn't make servers. They route data. Do one thing and do it well. Unless they suddenly decide to package some kind of whittled-down servlet engine to enable ebiz environments for the SMB market, I think they'll leave that game to those who have been doing it for nearly a decade. Its not like its a concept that's still in its infancy and the direction is still being decided. Blade servers are full Intel or RISC servers in a micro-pizza box configuration with custom connectors and not much more. And who knows, maybe one day a vendor will release blade servers designed to plug into a Cisco chassis with 10Gbit networking. Hard to do failover across core routers that way, but hey, its a thought.
Finally, yes, there is a huge business need for On Demand. Of course, its difficult to get into preaching about On Demand without being labeled a "marketdroid", "shill", or "parrot". On Demand is much more about business consulting that IT consulting. Its about rediscovering what your business was born to do. Its about collecting and organizing all of your corporate data and using open architectures to invent new ways of looking at that data, and selling views of that data back to your business units -- the consumers of that data. Its about stripping IT out of the ivory towers (leaving just the business functions behind) and using open methods for selling it back to the towers in useful new ways they've never dreamed of before - gaining new insight into and linkages with other related divisions, their customers, suppliers, and business partners. When my family asks what kind of work I do, I usually explain that for the last 20 years, computers have been used to take jobs away from people. Well, for the next 20, I am helping to develop new business processes that were never previously possible due to the "processing limitations" of human beings.
Check out what I've been getting trained on this summer: Virtualization Engine Its a manager for your ebiz environment that tells you whether or not your stated business goals are being met, and uses ARM instrumentation to tell you where your sequence is underperforming. Its really quite amazing all the technologies that have been brought under the VE umbrella. And unlike HP, our product manages ebiz apps running on RISC (pSeries and iSeries) and Intel, across AIX, i5/OS, Windows, and Linux on all those platforms. The mainframe has had incredible levels of workload management for years and is being incorporated into this strategy. I hope this answers some of your questions or clarifies some things for you.
Thanks, HP! ;)
I might start listening to more NPR too, since I've had bad luck listening to their Internet broadcasts
Have you checked Shoutcast lately? Remember the old days when, in order to get NPR via streaming MP3 you had to look up a station at current.org that streams in MP3? Well, after the McDonald's hieress died and donated what, a trizillion dollars to NPR, they can be found on Shoutcast with like 56 of 157628 listeners! Your troubled NPR streaming days are over. (Just checked, and they are currently at 0/96669 listeners at 56k.)
Come on, people, get on those streams! Let's show their appreciation for this effort. No more WUGA, WPSU, WRDU, or WDET for me.
This is why /. is a great site for hobbyists and newbies. All you had to say for those with actual work experience is "AOL adds RSA keyfob support". I can almost make a necklace out my expired ones.
What kind of themes are you referring to?
At install time for gaim, you can choose to install Bluecurve, at least one other theme whose name escapes me, or no theme at all. Back at 0.77 (I believe), there was a big problem with the themes causing ugly crashes, and since the "no theme" install looks like a win95 app (and I reset my XP desktop to the win2k theme), I lose absolutely nothing by specifically choosing to not install a theme. One place I do like to play with themes is the GDM login screen. I especially like the Lower Manhattan theme from themes.org.
I'm with you. My company laptop came with 1.6GHz/512MB/60GB. Its funny seeing folks complain about an extra 3MB or so. But anyway, sometimes I'm reminded of the old days of OSS when I get into discussions about IM. I can't tell you how often I hear myself plugging gaim. You'd think after all these years, I'd give up trying to convert people! Its free, looks the same on Linux & Windows, lets me use Jabber running on some Linux box with non-root privs, and lets me encrypt all my chats the same way regardless of the network I use. It really has been a staple of mine for so many years. I'm in the process of blocking AIM, Yahoo! and MSN chat ports and replacing them with gaim and Jabber (and all its gateways) for a middle school I'm taking care of. Will get them ready for switching to k12ltsp.
I subscribe to gaim and gaim-encryption file releases from sourceforge, and gaim-encryption usually follows each gaim release by about a week. Oh, and I never load any themes because I use it for utility, not eye candy.
I used outside the box reasoning to devine the answer
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Oh, but like most Slashdotters, you can't spell! (Pulls the red lever to open the trap door, thus ending the interview)
"devise", btw. And don't go for the $DEITY angle, either.. that's "divine" as in "divine intervention".
You do realize that there's absolutely no way you'll get through 80GB of music OR video on a single battery charge?
You do realize that people don't load each day's music selection into their iPods as part of their morning rituals, don't you? Why do you think you have to watch/listen to your entire collection in a single charge?? Plug it in when you get home at night, unplug and take it with you in the morning. Listen to whatever subset of your collection you want during the day.
Exactly. This reminded me of two things. First, the research work someone did to convert network bandwidth to a filesystem. He turned ping payloads into low-latency storage and intentionally malformed emails (bad recipient) to Exchange servers as high-latency storage.
At the time, Exchange was the only server to include the entire body of the failed email in the bounce message, and you could keep the connection open idefinitely with about a packet a minute. Then once you closed the connection, the server would turn around and shoot your file (well, email) back to you.
Second, all this seems perfect for LUFS where they say, "remember, everything's a file -- and if it's not, it should be!"
I don't see why a thermostat NEEDS to be network enabled
I would like to try to save money by doing predictive HVAC. By knowing in advance what the outside temp and humidity is supposed to be, it is supposedly much cheaper to cool off a place early by running AC before the high heat of the day hits. Also, my wife likes to keep the place much warmer than I do. By integrating position reporting for my car (APRS/TAPR), the house could know when I'm half an hour away and start adjusting the temperature to my liking. Finally, my wife and I like to get away quite often, so in the summer I hold the temperature up pretty high while we're away. I usually ask my in-laws to hit "resume" on the thermostat to get back into the normal cooling cycle a day before we get home. As others have said, it would be easy to do it by cellphone, but as I mentioned, I would prefer to just have the house know where I am.
If you've ever looked into getting current ambient temperature and thermostat controls in and out of a PC, you'd see how convoluted it is. If home builders could just automatically run CAT5 to every room, every major appliance and every cable tv outlet, things would be much easier down the road.
upgrading things like storage space is critical. Being able to expand RAID arrays (etc)"
This just struck me as weird, as I'm on the tail end of a 2+ year server consolidation project and we now have over 40TB on SAN. We buy servers with 2 hot plug bays and a RAID controller. "Storage" is something that appears on the box after we submit some paperwork! Your comment should read, "extremely predictable (or modern) environment".
With dozens of VMWare servers and a few blade chassis, we (well, the cabling group) has to actually touch some sort of cable only once every two dozen server builds or so. The ancient art of "racking and jacking" is becoming more like "copy a 4GB file" and "drag a drop a MAC address on an OS build profile."
Last go 'round, I swear.
/. geezers like it or not.
1. Okay, so I got lucky.
2. No, I bought it pre-built. Did you include in your time estimate how long it took Philips or Sony to assemble your box? No. Of course not. I added an ethernet card to my TiVO and a TV card to my Myth experiment. Its a wash.
3. Okay, so you have 1/10th the features that Myth offers.
4. MythTV is not a viable alternative for 99.99% -- I'm *really* not trying to argue, but I sure hate it when people use that figure. As if you're in a position to say.
5. its not a real option for replacing Tivo until I can order a MythTV box for the same price -- Not a real option for you. Granted.
6. If I was in college and had lots of free time to screw with things, I'd be all over it, too. -- Don't know where that one came from. I'm usually the one throwing the "call me when you graduate, kiddo" line. Maybe you thought I had an extra digit on my UID or something (and forgot that UIDs around 500k graduated 3 years ago). I mean, I respect your seniority, but you only predate me by about a year. Sorry, we're both
Thanks for the dialog. I only hope you see things are better than you remember. I experimented with it. It worked out of the box. I bought the PC to be an ESX Server so I had to blow it away and move on. I guess I am a "one in ten thousand" kinda guy.
Just to keep the facts straight, I spent $500, did absolutely zero research, dug up a dusty old Hauppauge WinTV PCI card, and it "just worked" (TM). Only after that did I spend time trying to get it working by hand because I wanted to know how it worked. Nothing about days or weeks spent setting it up. Just boot up, choose the option to reformat and install on the PC, let it install, enter my zip code, choose my cable provider, and I had a PVR in 30 minutes that also had news headlines and a local weather radar loop as a screen saver. So no, its not hard to compete with your TiVO setup time. Not at all.
And after 2 1/2 years, the two will cross each other at cost effectiveness. A LOT sooner if you order the home media option for your TiVO to get half of what Myth offers.
And I do have a tricked out TiVO so I didn't keep Myth. I am planning on going back, though, since I need a content server for my CarPC project. Just saying, don't be so dismissive. KnoppMyth works very, very well and is quite easy to setup.
If you ever decide to drop your TiVO subscription and centralize your capture efforts and media collection, MythTV is really the way to go. I, too, have gone through the nightmare of trying to get it to work. BUT -- someone has made a working Knoppix-based Myth installer, called KnoppMyth. You boot up raw hardware (no OS needed) off this CD and it takes it from there. Basically converts any PC with a tv capture card and s-video out into a tricked out no-sub TiVO. Try it sometime. You might be impressed.
When they tried to board, after presenting identification several of them were red flagged by CAPPS. Unfortunately nothing was done with that information
Please stop spreading this misinformation. The entire purpose of the CAPPS system was to guarantee that flagged passengers are on a plane before their baggage is loaded. This system was developed in response to Pan Am 108 which was destroyed by a bomb in a checked ghetto blaster, placed on board by the bomber who failed to board the flight. You have repeatedly said the government did nothing for the passengers flagged by CAPPS, when in fact they followed 100% of the procedures ordered by that system. Policymakers just never believed that someone would execute a suicide hijacking, let alone four simultaneously. Judging by your multiple posts, you really do need to read the commission report.
And if you did read it, read it again. If you can trust a government commission long enough to sit through its report, it's a very interesting read.
Such as Sequent, who sorta doesn't exist any more...
/Beaverton/IBM in their Notes email addresses! We IBMers are very grateful to Sequent for their NUMA contributions. It really took us to the next level in flexibility and scalability, and helped secure our lead in server shipments well into the future. Paired up with our newest developments in Power5, and our "run Linux on everything" philosophy, I'd say we have a pretty good server family.
Ouch, I'll pass that on to all my co-workers with