Most schools have no reason for owning any sort of TV tuner in every classroom, and are located in steel-roofed buildings that do not get reception easily.
Seriously?
When I was at school in the UK we would regularly - though not frequently - use video as part of lessons. The BBC broadcast a whole host of TV shows designed to be shown in the classroom with accompanying teaching material.
Is this some peculiar European teaching strategy?
All our classrooms has access to a TV and an aerial socket on the wall. That was decades ago, seems hard to believe it isn't the case for most schools.
Oh please! No matter what the cost, no matter what the delay, no matter what they'll never look outside America to replace Air Force One.
Oh but they will. They'll look to Airbus to provide a cheaper replacement. They'll leak or even announce that Airbus have won the contract.
Then Congress will investigate the procurement process, find a small flaw, little more will be said and Boeing will eventually build the aircraft.
Airbus are too convenient as away to keep the Boeing price in check. Of course it's unlikely they'll ever win the contract. It's like Toyota building the presidential limo.
9 years late, we can welcome RIM to the new millenium.
Seriously, most geeks will have used cell phones as modems for years. I certainly did it back in the last millennium. In the old days, IR was the way to connect. Then when you got fed up trying to keep the phone pointed at the computer you got a cable.
Bluetooth replaced all that nonsense. And, today, we have software that turns your phone into a Wireless access point, allowing you to share your connection with the entire room.
Here's hoping I never have a job that forces me to give all that up for a Blackberry!
It's not like Macs don't come with expansion card slots (PCI or ExpressCard) that could take a WiFi card with a RealTek chip
Actually the MacBook doesn't have an expansion slot - that's what caused the big hoo-ha about the lack of Firewire support, there's no way to add it in later.
For the other Macs you're absolutely right - especially if they had a wireless N driver as I could conceive of some Mac users upgrading toa third party card to provide wireless N functionality.
Well it's not dirt cheap for 500GB - that's $75/month. But who really has 500GB of critical data.
Many folk here probably make a living out of making sure company data stays around 'forever'. It can easily be a full time job. The lesson from that is that if you want data to stay around forever you need to look after it yourself or pay someone else.
S3 is a perfect solution for this. BeanBagKing needs to decide what data he really needs preserved forever then pay accordingly.
The other alternative is doing it yourself with RAID arrays at different locations. Sync your 'must be preserved folder' nightly to both locations using rdiff-backup or similar. Regularly test recovery and make sure all the disks in both arrays are working without error. This is more challenging these days as domestic broadband sees caps being introduced, but for moderate volumes of data it should work fine. If they have a garage separate from their house they may be able to host a RAID array in the home and in the garage, and hope that any fire/flood/tornado/earthquake doesn't take out both.
Vendors make things like ticket terminals for train stations, ATMs for banks etc.
These get used almost constantly for years with little maintenance of the customer facing parts.
I'm not sure where your 'millions' comes from, but we are facing a limit of two weeks, or four if you include the paralympics. There's nothing on at night, so it's not even 24x7. It should be trivial to make something that survives three olympics. The sports results I see on TV today don't look all that different to the ones I saw two decades ago.
"At the time of the writing Yahoo! security has been notified."
I do wonder what route he chose to notify them? Maybe an email to postmaster@... ?
I don't see anything on Zimbra's bugzilla which I'd have thought would be the proper place to make such a report.
Maybe that was too difficult to find, and wouldn't be immediately obvious to other zimbra users. But then there's nothing immediately obvious on the official zimbra forums either.
It's worth remembering you only need a client in the living room.
I'd imagine you quickly end up with hundreds of GB of video, so you want some kind of RAID to protect from drive failure. That means multiple disks which tends to mean bigger box, more heat more fans and more noise.
Personally I'm using xbmc not having much need to record live TV. I run it on an eeebox that I picked up for $300. It's tiny. It draws 20 watts, is practically silent, runs 24x7 and can play up to 720P. It has DVI out so can be hooked up to HDMI and has optical audio out if you want to connect the sound to your amp.
It fills all my needs. If I was deploying Myth, I'd be looking for a tower with plenty of cooling to live in a cupboard and use something like an eeebox as the client.
If I had a no-name brand capture card from some fly-by-night taiwanese company, this might make sense, but there is NO excuse for Linux not supporting hardware from one of the two big players in the industry.
Let me correct that for you.
If I had a no-name brand capture card from some fly-by-night taiwanese company, this might make sense, but there is NO excuse for one of the two big players in the industry not supporting their hardware on Linux.
Myth shouldn't be struggling to support hardware. You think Microsoft have to reverse engineer and hack away at every card to make it work with their media center? The folks at ATI should be making sure something like a capture card works properly on linux with mythtv.
You see they're not suing to win - they're suing to delay.
Maybe they'll be in a position to roll out something cheaper like wimax while still suing the county. Maybe newer technology will come along and allows them to deploy faster connections while the county is still being delayed by the lawsuit. Maybe the county will just give up due to the legal costs.
All the company cares about it making the process as long and as expensive as possible. Even if they don't win here, they might put off some other upstart city from doing likewise.
I haven't seen a broadband connection advertised as 'unlimited' in years. If you did, I'd suggest reporting it to your state attorney general because yes, it is misleading.
Still your contract that you accepted will almost certainly make clear the provisions under which they offer you service. You did read the actual contract, yes?
So BT overcharge on the backbone - that's an issue the regulator should address. Much of the capacity issues _should_ be addressed by the 21CN as it develops.
What do you suggest as an alternative to the BT backbone? Those other providers could never afford to roll their own backbone? LLU is available in every city. Would you prefer it like the US with no requirement to offer LLU and usually the only choice for broadband is between the local cable monopoly or the local telephone monopoly?
At least in the UK you can get the type and level of service you want and need. You can pay a little more and get a provider like Zen with fantastic customer service, or your parents can pay half as much and use BT or Pipex or one of the dozens of others and get a connection that's fine for email and light web browsing.
Did it ever occur to you that I could be writing for the audience?
You don't buy the Wall Street Journal for the cartoons. If you're posting on/. and yet bought a $30 month DSL connection and in 2008 still expect it to be unlimited then yes, you're pretty delusional.
Personally I'm supportive of published caps. We know hidden ones have existed for some time. It's far better if you know you're buying 20GB of bandwidth or 100GB and it's fair if those using 100GB aren't subsidised by those using 20.
Don't whine that you bought an unlimited connection for $30/month and you should get to use it without penalty. I do agree connections should never have been sold as unlimited (indeed this addresses that very point) but you're an idiot if you think current networks to the home in the US can deliver that sort of bandwidth at that sort of cost.
The problem in the US is the lack of competition. This should allow prices to be driven down. Our parents and grandparents should be able to buy uber cheap 2GB/month packages.
Look at the UK where almost everyone with a phone line can pick from dozens of DSL providers. Competition helps keep prices in check. More expensive providers offer better customer service etc.
But there's so little competition in the US market that there's serious potential for this to be almost all negative.
What makes even less sense is the varying of both bandwidth and capacity. If you're metering the connection, there's no reason at all that everyone shouldn't get the fastest connection available. That's also how it works in the UK.
What's the point of artificially slowing down data for those on the 20GB tariff who in fact are paying more per byte for the data?
The point Knuth makes in his post is that these things got framed and put on CompSci notice boards etc. Obtaining the details became trivial. The OP was suggesting that Knuth's accounts being targeted was in some way odd when in fact it was predictable if unfortunate.
I can tell you for a FACT that not only does no-one here use chains in the winter, but chains and "studded tires" (tires with small metal bumps embedded in the rubber) are Illegal in New York State.
Did you only live there for the summer or are you just making this up as you go along? Not only are snow tires, including studded tires and chains allowed between Oct 16 to April 30 - they're actually required to drive on a emergency snow route during declared snow emergencies.
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Seriously?
When I was at school in the UK we would regularly - though not frequently - use video as part of lessons. The BBC broadcast a whole host of TV shows designed to be shown in the classroom with accompanying teaching material.
Is this some peculiar European teaching strategy?
All our classrooms has access to a TV and an aerial socket on the wall. That was decades ago, seems hard to believe it isn't the case for most schools.
Oh but they will. They'll look to Airbus to provide a cheaper replacement. They'll leak or even announce that Airbus have won the contract.
Then Congress will investigate the procurement process, find a small flaw, little more will be said and Boeing will eventually build the aircraft.
Airbus are too convenient as away to keep the Boeing price in check. Of course it's unlikely they'll ever win the contract. It's like Toyota building the presidential limo.
Yet the Queen of the UK or the British Prime Minister can fly using scheduled air travel?
9 years late, we can welcome RIM to the new millenium.
Seriously, most geeks will have used cell phones as modems for years. I certainly did it back in the last millennium. In the old days, IR was the way to connect. Then when you got fed up trying to keep the phone pointed at the computer you got a cable.
Bluetooth replaced all that nonsense. And, today, we have software that turns your phone into a Wireless access point, allowing you to share your connection with the entire room.
Here's hoping I never have a job that forces me to give all that up for a Blackberry!
Did we just extend the War on Terror?
How many Muslims have you met wearing a 'towel' on their head?
Indeed.
However, in the UK it costs 10p (15c) to send a text message with no cost to receive.
In the US it now costs 20c for both sender and receiver, 2.6x more expensive.
Actually the MacBook doesn't have an expansion slot - that's what caused the big hoo-ha about the lack of Firewire support, there's no way to add it in later.
For the other Macs you're absolutely right - especially if they had a wireless N driver as I could conceive of some Mac users upgrading toa third party card to provide wireless N functionality.
Well it's not dirt cheap for 500GB - that's $75/month. But who really has 500GB of critical data.
Many folk here probably make a living out of making sure company data stays around 'forever'. It can easily be a full time job. The lesson from that is that if you want data to stay around forever you need to look after it yourself or pay someone else.
S3 is a perfect solution for this. BeanBagKing needs to decide what data he really needs preserved forever then pay accordingly.
The other alternative is doing it yourself with RAID arrays at different locations. Sync your 'must be preserved folder' nightly to both locations using rdiff-backup or similar. Regularly test recovery and make sure all the disks in both arrays are working without error. This is more challenging these days as domestic broadband sees caps being introduced, but for moderate volumes of data it should work fine. If they have a garage separate from their house they may be able to host a RAID array in the home and in the garage, and hope that any fire/flood/tornado/earthquake doesn't take out both.
Vendors make things like ticket terminals for train stations, ATMs for banks etc.
These get used almost constantly for years with little maintenance of the customer facing parts.
I'm not sure where your 'millions' comes from, but we are facing a limit of two weeks, or four if you include the paralympics. There's nothing on at night, so it's not even 24x7. It should be trivial to make something that survives three olympics. The sports results I see on TV today don't look all that different to the ones I saw two decades ago.
"At the time of the writing Yahoo! security has been notified."
I do wonder what route he chose to notify them? Maybe an email to postmaster@... ?
I don't see anything on Zimbra's bugzilla which I'd have thought would be the proper place to make such a report.
Maybe that was too difficult to find, and wouldn't be immediately obvious to other zimbra users. But then there's nothing immediately obvious on the official zimbra forums either.
It's worth remembering you only need a client in the living room.
I'd imagine you quickly end up with hundreds of GB of video, so you want some kind of RAID to protect from drive failure. That means multiple disks which tends to mean bigger box, more heat more fans and more noise.
Personally I'm using xbmc not having much need to record live TV. I run it on an eeebox that I picked up for $300. It's tiny. It draws 20 watts, is practically silent, runs 24x7 and can play up to 720P. It has DVI out so can be hooked up to HDMI and has optical audio out if you want to connect the sound to your amp.
It fills all my needs. If I was deploying Myth, I'd be looking for a tower with plenty of cooling to live in a cupboard and use something like an eeebox as the client.
Let me correct that for you.
If I had a no-name brand capture card from some fly-by-night taiwanese company, this might make sense, but there is NO excuse for one of the two big players in the industry not supporting their hardware on Linux .
Myth shouldn't be struggling to support hardware. You think Microsoft have to reverse engineer and hack away at every card to make it work with their media center? The folks at ATI should be making sure something like a capture card works properly on linux with mythtv.
Nope, but you can run Vista.
Well except there's a bit more of an agenda.
You see they're not suing to win - they're suing to delay.
Maybe they'll be in a position to roll out something cheaper like wimax while still suing the county. Maybe newer technology will come along and allows them to deploy faster connections while the county is still being delayed by the lawsuit. Maybe the county will just give up due to the legal costs.
All the company cares about it making the process as long and as expensive as possible. Even if they don't win here, they might put off some other upstart city from doing likewise.
I haven't seen a broadband connection advertised as 'unlimited' in years. If you did, I'd suggest reporting it to your state attorney general because yes, it is misleading.
Still your contract that you accepted will almost certainly make clear the provisions under which they offer you service. You did read the actual contract, yes?
So BT overcharge on the backbone - that's an issue the regulator should address. Much of the capacity issues _should_ be addressed by the 21CN as it develops.
What do you suggest as an alternative to the BT backbone? Those other providers could never afford to roll their own backbone? LLU is available in every city. Would you prefer it like the US with no requirement to offer LLU and usually the only choice for broadband is between the local cable monopoly or the local telephone monopoly?
At least in the UK you can get the type and level of service you want and need. You can pay a little more and get a provider like Zen with fantastic customer service, or your parents can pay half as much and use BT or Pipex or one of the dozens of others and get a connection that's fine for email and light web browsing.
Your logic doesn't add up.
You didn't follow my post.
You are for published bandwidth caps that are substantially lower than the 'artificial' unknowns of yesterday?
No, I am for sensible caps in a market that has competition and much cheaper tariffs than most in the US are forced to pay today.
Feel free to disagree, just don't change what I was saying while you do so.
Did it ever occur to you that I could be writing for the audience?
You don't buy the Wall Street Journal for the cartoons. If you're posting on /. and yet bought a $30 month DSL connection and in 2008 still expect it to be unlimited then yes, you're pretty delusional.
Personally I'm supportive of published caps. We know hidden ones have existed for some time. It's far better if you know you're buying 20GB of bandwidth or 100GB and it's fair if those using 100GB aren't subsidised by those using 20.
Don't whine that you bought an unlimited connection for $30/month and you should get to use it without penalty. I do agree connections should never have been sold as unlimited (indeed this addresses that very point) but you're an idiot if you think current networks to the home in the US can deliver that sort of bandwidth at that sort of cost.
The problem in the US is the lack of competition. This should allow prices to be driven down. Our parents and grandparents should be able to buy uber cheap 2GB/month packages.
Look at the UK where almost everyone with a phone line can pick from dozens of DSL providers. Competition helps keep prices in check. More expensive providers offer better customer service etc.
But there's so little competition in the US market that there's serious potential for this to be almost all negative.
What makes even less sense is the varying of both bandwidth and capacity. If you're metering the connection, there's no reason at all that everyone shouldn't get the fastest connection available. That's also how it works in the UK.
What's the point of artificially slowing down data for those on the 20GB tariff who in fact are paying more per byte for the data?
Indeed - I was making an example with too much haste. I should just have posted a link to Google images.
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~valiente/knuth-1998-08-10.jpg
http://truetex.com/knuthchk.jpg
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~valiente/knuth-2002-08-24.jpg
etc...
The point Knuth makes in his post is that these things got framed and put on CompSci notice boards etc. Obtaining the details became trivial. The OP was suggesting that Knuth's accounts being targeted was in some way odd when in fact it was predictable if unfortunate.
It is odd that he's had multiple attacks while I've had zero
Are copies of your checks published with routing and account numbers intact on sites like Wikipedia?
Still think it's odd?
Maybe you're kidding, or maybe you have no idea what caps are in place elsewhere in the world.
In the UK there are dozens of very cheap broadband packages with 2GB caps, and the UK is comparatively well connected to the internet.
Australasia is well developed, but doesn't have huge internet capacity. I can easily see 1GB caps in place there.
but they can't put you in jail until you tell them where said key, gun, or body is. That's part of the privilege against self incrimination.
Hans Reiser would beg to differ on that one.
Why fork it? Just let it die.
There is a serious, open source, Object Relational DBMS available.
Yes, and Vim is better than Emacs. Why don't we discuss that too?
Did you only live there for the summer or are you just making this up as you go along? Not only are snow tires, including studded tires and chains allowed between Oct 16 to April 30 - they're actually required to drive on a emergency snow route during declared snow emergencies.
Read para 35a of this section of the state code.