I mean seriously, any time they want to kill male sex-drive these days they tend to inject her into it.
In all seriousness, it's a good time to consider building (or buying) your own Steam Machine. I built my own Wintendo, since everything else I have runs Linux anyways, but Steam is every bit as smooth as the modern game consoles when it comes to navigating with a controller. (I still suggest a PS4 controller over a Steam one - fortunately that works). Unlike the consoles your library stays good as the years go by.
I'm working on coworkers to convince them Steam is a good console alternative, this can catch on. At the price of modern consoles an APU or low to mid range gaming system is reasonable alternative to a console. All we need is to get GOOD non-gaming apps on the console . A Netflix app, a Hulu app, that sort of thing (really - Linux versions is what I'm saying).
I rarely click on the tweets embedded in news stories.
Twitter is mostly a bunch of noise to me. I have an account, and I have a couple of things auto-posting in case someone wants to see the YouTube video I liked. I don't spend much time on YouTube either.
It's basically a neglected account, though I've had a couple of verified celebrities follow me unprovoked - that blew my mind. Edward James Olmos and Nolan K Bushnell. Sorry to bore them so much. Bushnell followed me after I made some Tweets from the Texas State Libertarian Convention - that's an explanation. I dusted off the account to participate in what was going on real-time. Olmos just popped up out of the woodwork, I don't know what, I didn't follow him or anything, but I'm a fan of his acting, so cool.
I like writing small books when I post and reply. I just never could see how so many embraced such a limiting format.
I know it originally caught on because the news media gave it such a big push but it doesn't explain the staying power to me. I would be happy if Twitter just went away all together. I tire of hearing about it constantly. One take away it note - based on the constant Twitter backlash in the news, from public shaming to outright executions in some countries I can't see why anyone would post an opinion there.
There were lots of good suggestions here, but few were actual pre-built in chassis systems - like the Intel ones I mentioned. This came from an online buddy, I found a few in-vehicle systems that were alright, but this one stands out. Not the exact form-factor I was looking for, but it will do.
The boxes they're in are reflective aluminum and are unlikely to be painted unless some city official or something has a community outreach program and lets an artist pain them at some point. That's always possible and I've seen it with other boxes around the city, but never toll road ones.
The wires come up through a concrete slab it is sitting on in some cases, or through armored conduit that has hermetic seals at the bottom of the box.
This is serious road-side work here, there's very little exposed wire anywhere, maybe the last few feet to few inches between a conduit and a piece of equipment, even then sometimes the conduit screws into the equipment.
Our electrical conduit could be used as plumbing in many cases if it had to be.
This is actually one of the best suggestions I've seen, and actually not that far off from the mil-spec vehicle devices I considered. We would rather stick with standard connectors, that's what the Intel servers we have in the air-conditioned boxes. For some reason when you cross the CPU divide you go from normal computer stuff to mil-spec or bare board only.
My dash cam has only semi-survived the heat in my vehicle, it's a good brand, it's a Cobra.
It quits working sometimes if I have to park in the sun in the summer until I get the air conditioning going again, I have to cool it off then power cycle it. Also, it's not wired for IP, the camera is built into the recorder and the battery didn't survive a full year, so when the car gets shut down it doesn't have the two or three minutes of additional recording time.
That being said one of the items I submitted for consideration was a vehicular DVR.
I like that site, I've been all through it, but it's got the initial issue, it's all bare-board stuff.
I may be able to convince them to go with something bare-board, or to custom make my own enclosure, which I can totally do, but for some reason when you go ARM all the nice big heat-sink ready to go systems go away.
The closest thing I can find ARM wise to what I'm looking for are those media PCs for TVs, and they aren't exactly industrial grade. I've used bare board stuff in integrated systems, but this is more modular.
We need someone who doesn't understand or give a damned thing about ESD, doesn't understand why you don't want to throw a bare board in a tool box with all their wrenches (yes, we've had this sort of problem) being able to replace one of these in the field. Right now I'm the most likely guy to be the one out there working on this stuff, but as the build-out nears completion it's quite possible whoever does the maintenance is going have some dork that never sees the sun will dump an image to some media in the office is going to set this up and hand it off to Billy Bob and Hector in their bucket truck to get around to replacing it some time this week.
Pecos did not have an official weather station that counted until less than a decade ago. While I was in high-school it made it to 128 one summer - of course the closest weather station was in Kermit and that's what shows as the official temperature for Pecos. My dad claims it made it to 132 in the mid 70's while he was still working cattle.
It has not gotten past 116 or so since that summer it hit 128 in 94 or 95.
What's fun is I used to pick cantaloupe with the migrant workers all day in 115 and was fine. When moved to Houston, I helped my boss move and was useless after an hour in 90. Damned humidity.
At the toll-rate you're talking about less than a month to pay for itself. This contract is for somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years. It's quite likely the equipment will be replaced many times over, paying for itself many times over each time, before the contract is up.
One of the potential systems I've submitted was an appliance meant for use in aircraft. I found some automotive ones as well. I have no idea how much any of those costs, every supplier I found wanted full company info for a quote, it makes it difficult to shop around.
Alternately pre-built full systems tend to at least sometimes have a price-tag next to them. Systems like are off the shelf and akin to what I want but out of spec. I'm trying to shop a little before settling on a supplier. Unfortunately Intel systems come packaged like the link, ARM seems to be bare boards.
I had a bare Pi with no additional heat syncs that couldn't play full HD movie with Kodi before overheating in a 78F apartment in the summer (we couldn't cool that apartment well, metal green front door, lots of sun exposure, the AC just couldn't get it cooler than that in the daytime summer).
We do have heaters in the x86 enclosures, but they really don't see a lot of use, the enclosures are well enough heated by the systems in the winter. A Houston winter rarely gets severe. I've never seen snow last 48 hours around here, and only 24 hours once since I moved here in 1998.
Most of our cameras do have built in heaters. I'm not sure about this one in particular, the final specs aren't picked out, but I doubt they'll be as high-budget as the cameras for reading plates. The plate-reading cameras could just about do the job I'm asking for on their own, they have complete Linux systems in the cameras themselves, the only thing they're missing is sufficient storage.
As for enclosures, I'm not sure which cabinet this project is going to be in, I was asked for help, this isn't really the area I work the most but I tend to be good at finding the right things.
It's going to be in a cabinet akin to this, plus or minus on size, probably minus considering what's going into this particular box. Some of the stuff I've built is in cabinets bigger than this by far, and some of it's in smaller, and yes, I've put stuff in nearly identical cabinets.
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I mean seriously, any time they want to kill male sex-drive these days they tend to inject her into it.
In all seriousness, it's a good time to consider building (or buying) your own Steam Machine. I built my own Wintendo, since everything else I have runs Linux anyways, but Steam is every bit as smooth as the modern game consoles when it comes to navigating with a controller. (I still suggest a PS4 controller over a Steam one - fortunately that works). Unlike the consoles your library stays good as the years go by.
I'm working on coworkers to convince them Steam is a good console alternative, this can catch on. At the price of modern consoles an APU or low to mid range gaming system is reasonable alternative to a console. All we need is to get GOOD non-gaming apps on the console . A Netflix app, a Hulu app, that sort of thing (really - Linux versions is what I'm saying).
I can't help but think of the classics sometimes.
Based on what I gather from the news - yeah.
I rarely click on the tweets embedded in news stories.
Twitter is mostly a bunch of noise to me. I have an account, and I have a couple of things auto-posting in case someone wants to see the YouTube video I liked. I don't spend much time on YouTube either.
It's basically a neglected account, though I've had a couple of verified celebrities follow me unprovoked - that blew my mind. Edward James Olmos and Nolan K Bushnell. Sorry to bore them so much. Bushnell followed me after I made some Tweets from the Texas State Libertarian Convention - that's an explanation. I dusted off the account to participate in what was going on real-time. Olmos just popped up out of the woodwork, I don't know what, I didn't follow him or anything, but I'm a fan of his acting, so cool.
I like writing small books when I post and reply. I just never could see how so many embraced such a limiting format.
I know it originally caught on because the news media gave it such a big push but it doesn't explain the staying power to me. I would be happy if Twitter just went away all together. I tire of hearing about it constantly. One take away it note - based on the constant Twitter backlash in the news, from public shaming to outright executions in some countries I can't see why anyone would post an opinion there.
I'm an old fart and I found this funny.
Cause, you know, Chinese Democracy and all.
There were lots of good suggestions here, but few were actual pre-built in chassis systems - like the Intel ones I mentioned. This came from an online buddy, I found a few in-vehicle systems that were alright, but this one stands out. Not the exact form-factor I was looking for, but it will do.
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The range requirements are contract requirements.
I honestly doubt we're going to see anything near the bottom requirement anytime soon, the top requirement I think we need to exceed....
The boxes they're in are reflective aluminum and are unlikely to be painted unless some city official or something has a community outreach program and lets an artist pain them at some point. That's always possible and I've seen it with other boxes around the city, but never toll road ones.
The wires come up through a concrete slab it is sitting on in some cases, or through armored conduit that has hermetic seals at the bottom of the box.
This is serious road-side work here, there's very little exposed wire anywhere, maybe the last few feet to few inches between a conduit and a piece of equipment, even then sometimes the conduit screws into the equipment.
Our electrical conduit could be used as plumbing in many cases if it had to be.
I like it, I'm calling the people from the US distributor now to see if we can build something from that closer to what I need.
Still, a board, but I like it.
This is actually one of the best suggestions I've seen, and actually not that far off from the mil-spec vehicle devices I considered. We would rather stick with standard connectors, that's what the Intel servers we have in the air-conditioned boxes. For some reason when you cross the CPU divide you go from normal computer stuff to mil-spec or bare board only.
My dash cam has only semi-survived the heat in my vehicle, it's a good brand, it's a Cobra.
It quits working sometimes if I have to park in the sun in the summer until I get the air conditioning going again, I have to cool it off then power cycle it. Also, it's not wired for IP, the camera is built into the recorder and the battery didn't survive a full year, so when the car gets shut down it doesn't have the two or three minutes of additional recording time.
That being said one of the items I submitted for consideration was a vehicular DVR.
I like that site, I've been all through it, but it's got the initial issue, it's all bare-board stuff.
I may be able to convince them to go with something bare-board, or to custom make my own enclosure, which I can totally do, but for some reason when you go ARM all the nice big heat-sink ready to go systems go away.
The closest thing I can find ARM wise to what I'm looking for are those media PCs for TVs, and they aren't exactly industrial grade. I've used bare board stuff in integrated systems, but this is more modular.
We need someone who doesn't understand or give a damned thing about ESD, doesn't understand why you don't want to throw a bare board in a tool box with all their wrenches (yes, we've had this sort of problem) being able to replace one of these in the field. Right now I'm the most likely guy to be the one out there working on this stuff, but as the build-out nears completion it's quite possible whoever does the maintenance is going have some dork that never sees the sun will dump an image to some media in the office is going to set this up and hand it off to Billy Bob and Hector in their bucket truck to get around to replacing it some time this week.
As my user name shows, I grew up in Pecos.
Pecos did not have an official weather station that counted until less than a decade ago. While I was in high-school it made it to 128 one summer - of course the closest weather station was in Kermit and that's what shows as the official temperature for Pecos. My dad claims it made it to 132 in the mid 70's while he was still working cattle.
It has not gotten past 116 or so since that summer it hit 128 in 94 or 95.
What's fun is I used to pick cantaloupe with the migrant workers all day in 115 and was fine. When moved to Houston, I helped my boss move and was useless after an hour in 90. Damned humidity.
Ambient temperature in the shade can reach above 100F easy.
A three foot deep hole in some of the areas we've already got three feet deep holes is a water well.
Even though this isn't a TXDOT project TXDOT is still involved and wouldn't approve something like that. They're pretty strict about enclosures.
At the toll-rate you're talking about less than a month to pay for itself. This contract is for somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years. It's quite likely the equipment will be replaced many times over, paying for itself many times over each time, before the contract is up.
You realize this is exactly what I asked for.
ARM = bare board.
Intel = prebuilt system with a huge heat-sink on top, exactly what I'm looking for in ARM
That's true in rural areas, usually peppered with a shotgun blasts.
Less common in Houston itself, and then it's usually a single pistol round....
One of the potential systems I've submitted was an appliance meant for use in aircraft. I found some automotive ones as well. I have no idea how much any of those costs, every supplier I found wanted full company info for a quote, it makes it difficult to shop around.
Alternately pre-built full systems tend to at least sometimes have a price-tag next to them. Systems like are off the shelf and akin to what I want but out of spec. I'm trying to shop a little before settling on a supplier. Unfortunately Intel systems come packaged like the link, ARM seems to be bare boards.
I had a bare Pi with no additional heat syncs that couldn't play full HD movie with Kodi before overheating in a 78F apartment in the summer (we couldn't cool that apartment well, metal green front door, lots of sun exposure, the AC just couldn't get it cooler than that in the daytime summer).
We do have heaters in the x86 enclosures, but they really don't see a lot of use, the enclosures are well enough heated by the systems in the winter. A Houston winter rarely gets severe. I've never seen snow last 48 hours around here, and only 24 hours once since I moved here in 1998.
Most of our cameras do have built in heaters. I'm not sure about this one in particular, the final specs aren't picked out, but I doubt they'll be as high-budget as the cameras for reading plates. The plate-reading cameras could just about do the job I'm asking for on their own, they have complete Linux systems in the cameras themselves, the only thing they're missing is sufficient storage.
As for enclosures, I'm not sure which cabinet this project is going to be in, I was asked for help, this isn't really the area I work the most but I tend to be good at finding the right things.
It's going to be in a cabinet akin to this, plus or minus on size, probably minus considering what's going into this particular box. Some of the stuff I've built is in cabinets bigger than this by far, and some of it's in smaller, and yes, I've put stuff in nearly identical cabinets.
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