It's been running every day since September of 1993... that's right 10 years... it's gone through 2 hard drives, but is still on the original memory, cpu, power supply, everything.
It's amazing that it still runs.
-J
You still have the latency issues, but one of the Hughes DIUs actually gratiutiously(sp) acks the tcp packets on both sides... much like the old telebit PEP based modems...
they also do http cacheing.
Their satellites are LEO, so you've got about 750ms RTT to deal with between your location and their headend...
Like other posters have said, it's good for bulk non-attendated data transfer, but to actually be sitting there using it for day to day activites, it's kinda painful. (Try to run a ssh or telnet session over a satellite link some time... you gain a whole new respect for using ed:)
Would be nice to have 16 or 24 individual inputs (balanced or unbalanced) for use at shows... you could use a decently powerful laptop as a multi-track recorder... just plug into the front-of-house mixing board and you have the entire band on disk, that you can remix to your heart's content.
I haven't seen anything like this yet that's not PCI, but it seems to me that a firewire interface should be able to easilly do something like this (at least bandwidth wise)
At my company, we tend to replace the boredom of the IT days with extreme sports... we leave at 4:00 and go wakeboarding or mountain biking. We even have company paid for "off-site" meetings at the sand dunes to go quading with our directors. (ever try to teach your boss how dns works near a campfire on a the cardboard from a case of beer before?)
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It's been running every day since September of 1993... that's right 10 years... it's gone through 2 hard drives, but is still on the original memory, cpu, power supply, everything. It's amazing that it still runs. -J
You still have the latency issues, but one of the Hughes DIUs actually gratiutiously(sp) acks the tcp packets on both sides... much like the old telebit PEP based modems... they also do http cacheing. Their satellites are LEO, so you've got about 750ms RTT to deal with between your location and their headend... Like other posters have said, it's good for bulk non-attendated data transfer, but to actually be sitting there using it for day to day activites, it's kinda painful. (Try to run a ssh or telnet session over a satellite link some time... you gain a whole new respect for using ed :)
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Would be nice to have 16 or 24 individual inputs (balanced or unbalanced) for use at shows... you could use a decently powerful laptop as a multi-track recorder... just plug into the front-of-house mixing board and you have the entire band on disk, that you can remix to your heart's content. I haven't seen anything like this yet that's not PCI, but it seems to me that a firewire interface should be able to easilly do something like this (at least bandwidth wise)
At my company, we tend to replace the boredom of the IT days with extreme sports... we leave at 4:00 and go wakeboarding or mountain biking. We even have company paid for "off-site" meetings at the sand dunes to go quading with our directors. (ever try to teach your boss how dns works near a campfire on a the cardboard from a case of beer before?)