Why would you want DVDs full of MP3s? The best part of having a DVD jukebox is being about to keep the real CDs someplace where they're accessible.
Sony's ES CD jukeboxes work the same way. I have three of them, also. Anyway, the absolute best thing about the current generation jukes is support for the SACD format. Multichannel music is a marvelous thing to have.
I suspect the main reason why such a device doesn't work with PCs is the stupidity of the Windows "drive letter" system that most people are familiar with.
I'm not. I've written in other/. topics about it. I keep lots and lots of video on line. I collect and digitize media almost continuously, but especially videos.
I even went so far as to build my own database and retrieval system for everything, something that, after conversations on slashdot, appears to be both unique and desireable for a lot of people.
The Sony ES-series 400-disc jukeboxes can be daisy-chained in groups of up to three per one logical unit. As long as you have something on-hand to act as an index (I use a trivial little web database), it's very easy access a substantial number of video DVDs quickly.... but then I use the same web database to access approximately 6TB computer files that I ALSO keep on-line.
Grouping with a friend or two who aren't idiots make CoH a much better experience. It took me almost 40 hours to get a 14th level character - not knowing what I was doing or where I was going. My second toon works with two others for maybe 90 minutes a night and hit 14 in 17 hours of play. Not only that, but that hour and a half a night has been REALLY enjoyable, hitting a lot more of the game's content and with a lot of talk about comics and other geeky pursuits along the way.
Anyway, reality is right where you left it. All you have to do is avert your gaze from the computer screen, and there it is.
If you're looking for a Slashcode-based adult discussion site, try babes.bomis.com. It gets almost no posts, but I'm fairly certain the site gets lots of traffic, for reasons discussed in the subject article.
There's also Coolio's Babelog (babes.coolios.net) , which is a softcore picture aggregation service that allows discussions. They're always looking for new contributors.
Yeah, yeah, I'm modding myself down so mods don't have to. But before I go, I'd just like to say the fact that I have "Excellent" karma and mostly post about porn says there might be an interest here. It isn't like trolls don't post smut anyway.
I hate to be a twit, but in this one case I'm gonna say it: Buy the DVDs!
The show was funny and deserves the support of its fans.
Man, I'll copy DVDs of crappy Hollywood movies I get from Netflix all day long, but those TV Show boxed sets I buy the day they come out. 20 or so hours of entertainment for $50 (or $20 on ebay). They seem like a pretty good deal to me.
I've come to the conclusion that the only way that anyone will make more TV I'd actually like to watch is if I spend money on the things that have been produced already. They wouldn't keep making Star Trek crap if people weren't buying the old stuff.
All that said, I see at least the entire first season on suprnova.org right now.
None of the above, actually. The (any software-) firewall isn't active at boot time, so there's a brief period of time when your PC have its network interface running without any protection whatsoever.
Supposedly this will be fixed in XPSP2.
A $30 Linksys NAT doohickey will keep the evil worm away, though.
Psst. Do a google for "Windows PE" sometime. It's a happy, beautiful thing. Other than the fact that it's based on XP, I mean, which I guess makes it a sad, emotionally scarring thing.
Master of Magic runs fine on all versions of Windows, and in DOSEmu, as long as you don't care about sound. Not too fast or too slow, either.
Man I wish someone would finish a Win32 (or Linux) port of that game! Even screen-scraping it to handle high-res graphics would be awesome. It really is right at the top of my personal "best games" list. I still play daily.
Yes. I want to spider all of Quantum. I have the bandwidth and I don't have a problem filling up terabytes of storage for no good reason.:)
A slightly more reasonable answer is this: I spider A LOT of porn. I don't look at much of it - although VW is one place that I *do* visit with a browser instead of wget or httrack. I imagine that's the lure of a community site, but that also makes a lot of sites that're protected by quantum more interesting/desireable than some of the other things I normally just download.
Given the nature of porn - it comes up, exists for awhile, then goes offline - I like to snag it while it's available, in case, at some future time, I can't get to it any more. For instance, there's a particular poster at your site who used to have a Quantum site, before I decided it was worth $20-whatever/month. Then she went away, and closed her pay site, and it's driving me nuts that I can't look at the site that isn't there any more.
An automated spidering would hopefully prevent that sort of thing from happening in the future.:)
One of the big complaints I have with your system is that there's nothing I can do to automate logins. I hit quantum.proadult.com, I have to log in. I visit Redclouds, click on somebody's site link, and I've got to log in, again. Why isn't there something like an inter-site authentication mode? Depending on how that person's site was constructed, I may even have to go searching for their login page, hence the more-than-occasional resentment at having to do manual browsing for something that I'd rather download in its entirety.
My Catalyst 5005 was fairly a steal when I bought it at auction, but the lower-end Cisco products are actually limited in Gbit capacities by their backplane. I'm not sure about the 4000-series, but my 5005 only has a 4Gbps backplane, which isn't a whole lot for the types of installations where someone would normally have a Catalyst 5000-series with a Gbit blade.
Each PC costs about $15/month to leave on all the time, I think. On the other hand, my thermostat was set to 60 degrees all winter (in northwest Indiana) and it wasn't ever cold in my house. My "computer room" has its own AC for summer months, too.
GboC isn't anywhere near good enough, at least on cat6 cable and 32bit, 33MHz PCI cards, to hit 1000Mbit/sec. It's more like 300 - 350Mbit (technically, I'd be better off doing IP over firewire, in other words).
We're talking about ~40MB/sec in ideal conditions, and that's something most modern ATA drives can tolerate reasonably well. I use Samsung SP1614Ns for most of my storage, which can transfer 33MB/s - 57MB/s (inner/outer zone) and handle 40MB/sec across around 70% of the each disk.
So most of the time, at least in theory, it's not a problem.
You aren't trying very hard. The core of my home network - presently 9 PCs, includes four that are used as central stores of massive amounts (around 900GB apiece, give or take) of video content. Rather than pay the costs in trying to have redundant storage for all of it, I simple distribute everything to more than one machine. Now, given that I'm talking about potentially moving around hundreds of single files in the ~4GB/file range, d'ya think Gbit is even a little justified?
Incidently, for the topic: All Gbit hardware auto-detects crossover, so I just built my backbone network by putting two cards in each of my fileservers and establishing routing between each host. Since Gbit switches are either too cheap to do jumbo frames, or cost more than I want to spend, that's an acceptable workaround. Each machine also has a link to one of the VLANs used by my "client" PCs on the plain old 100mbit network.
My fiance left me for another woman - I got to watch her transform into a lesbian over a period of weeks, but she couldn't articulate what was going on in her head... which is a large part of the reason for my extremely poor mental health, I think (I think that would shatter anyone, actually). I accept that gay people are gay but being in a city that's famous for its homosexual community probably wouldn't do much for my sanity - driving through the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago was enough to make me throw up. Not only that, it's hard enough getting a computer-type job. I don't want to be competing with every unemployed geek in silicon valley.
As for professional help: SSRIs are prescribed like candy. I tell a doctor or psychiatrist I'm depressed and they'll hand me halloween-sized samples of whatever pill they're being paid to push: Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin. All of them have side effects, and after being on maximum doses of several different ones at different times, I can tell you that they certainly didn't help my mental state. I continued to have the same symptoms of borderline-suicidal depression and anxiety, only coupled with what I felt to be a slightly delayed response to the world around me. "Talking" therapy I tried with four different therapists over the last two years (at $85 -$155/hr). I don't know who those people normally help; they didn't help me. Two barely seemed attentive at all. A third (I found out at our last session, a lesbian) seemed more interested and concerned with my ex. The forth was padding his bill by making me repeat everything I said four or five times. Those people aren't professionals. They're scam artists with diplomas. I tried EMRD and hypnosis. I've had accupuncture done. It's all bullshit. At some point, I decided that I'd rather be the fool who keeps his money.
1. Allergies make 3 of four seasons unpleasant for me. Snow handles the other one. I usually have to wear gloves and a mask to be outside for more than 10 minutes. 2. No social life. In my case, this is a literal truth. Zero. None. I'm severely depressed and suffer from accute social anxiety. Theoretically, the proper treatments for those conditions involve medication and acclimating myself to different conditions, but this has been an entirely negative experience for me, to the point that I'd rather just be a shut-in. 3. Minimal in common with anyone I might randomly meet. I don't like sports, drinking alcohol or any popular form of music. I'm not religious (this is a huge one in Indiana, where I live). My personal interests are not even remotely conducive to socialization. 4. Crippling shyness. Distinct from anxiety, I'm also very shy. I only speak when spoken to. I actually feign being mute in public, since that's easier for me than returning a greeting. I'd never, ever walk up to someone and say "hi." I've found that other people are not worth any amount of trust I put in them anyway, so the more distance I put between them and myself, the better off I am.
On the positive side for staying in: 1. I've spent a vast amount of money to have a place where I enjoy being, up to and including a small movie theater in my house and media access in every room; I have my books, the ever-changing internet and wonderfully comfortable furniture. 2. Home is where my pets are. They are a great comfort to me. 3. Climate control + air filters
"Life" may be out there, but in here, I am safe and comfortable, and I don't feel sick to my stomach for no good reason. No one says anything stupid or cruel about my appearance or obvious social deficiencies.
$3000 will also buy a brilliant 42" Samsung DLP monitor, which actually supports HDTV resolutions (the gateway display is EDTV-only), has more video inputs and doesn't burn in or ultimately leak the contents of its screen into open atmosphere.
I'm not commenting on your comment, but man, there is no way in hell Opera is faster for Porn browsing than Firebird with Linky and Magpie (now with bukstr and URL sanitizing support!). Current versions of Opera still require me to click on individual links. What kind of bullshit is that?
Many years ago there was an ancient technology for the sending of messages. It was a small thing, clipped on a belt, and at times when it demanded attention, it would beep and vibrate, as was the style of that time. This simple device, long forgotten by Important Professionals, remains in use in the wilds of inner city urban America. Were it not for the economically disadvantaged, we might've forgotten all about the amazing power of this simple tool, and without it, the world would indeed be a poorer place, even for those Important Professionals whose lives have been forver altered by Stupid Management Decisions against the March of New Technology.
While I'm at it: What's your criteria for your "personal search engine"? My media indexing for CDs and DVDs is handled by various ($$$) hardware from Escient, which works very well, even in the obnoxious quantities I work in.
For computer media, my system is a very simple mysql database. Video is pretty easy to categorize - usually I can copy and paste info from imdb or iafd and use that as keyword for my video, and that info is stored with a link to whatever filesystems those videos are stored on. I have another script that traverses MY shared directories, looking for new stuff to drop in appropriate places on full-time fileservers and to update the db with whatever is "pending" with no info or has moved to removable media/been deleted.
It's loose and it's ugly and pretty insecure but I can bring it up on any PC in my house, and it does what I need.
Pictures are... not well organized. Tagging millions of pictures with metadata is something IMO that requires prison labor. There's no other way it'd get done.
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Why would you want DVDs full of MP3s? The best part of having a DVD jukebox is being about to keep the real CDs someplace where they're accessible.
Sony's ES CD jukeboxes work the same way. I have three of them, also.
Anyway, the absolute best thing about the current generation jukes is support for the SACD format. Multichannel music is a marvelous thing to have.
I suspect the main reason why such a device doesn't work with PCs is the stupidity of the Windows "drive letter" system that most people are familiar with.
I'm not. I've written in other /. topics about it. I keep lots and lots of video on line. I collect and digitize media almost continuously, but especially videos.
I even went so far as to build my own database and retrieval system for everything, something that, after conversations on slashdot, appears to be both unique and desireable for a lot of people.
The Sony ES-series 400-disc jukeboxes can be daisy-chained in groups of up to three per one logical unit. As long as you have something on-hand to act as an index (I use a trivial little web database), it's very easy access a substantial number of video DVDs quickly. ... but then I use the same web database to access approximately 6TB computer files that I ALSO keep on-line.
Grouping with a friend or two who aren't idiots make CoH a much better experience. It took me almost 40 hours to get a 14th level character - not knowing what I was doing or where I was going.
My second toon works with two others for maybe 90 minutes a night and hit 14 in 17 hours of play. Not only that, but that hour and a half a night has been REALLY enjoyable, hitting a lot more of the game's content and with a lot of talk about comics and other geeky pursuits along the way.
Anyway, reality is right where you left it. All you have to do is avert your gaze from the computer screen, and there it is.
"People repeatedly say 'the Xbox has a lot of the same games as the PC, there are no real exclusives'"
Xbox has the Buffy the Vampire Slayer games.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I'd buy Buffy games if they existed for my PC.
But I don't like the console gaming experience or the (entirely too Japanese) culture of consoles, so like your friend, I would never buy a console.
If you're looking for a Slashcode-based adult discussion site, try babes.bomis.com. It gets almost no posts, but I'm fairly certain the site gets lots of traffic, for reasons discussed in the subject article.
There's also Coolio's Babelog (babes.coolios.net) , which is a softcore picture aggregation service that allows discussions. They're always looking for new contributors.
Yeah, yeah, I'm modding myself down so mods don't have to. But before I go, I'd just like to say the fact that I have "Excellent" karma and mostly post about porn says there might be an interest here. It isn't like trolls don't post smut anyway.
I hate to be a twit, but in this one case I'm gonna say it:
Buy the DVDs!
The show was funny and deserves the support of its fans.
Man, I'll copy DVDs of crappy Hollywood movies I get from Netflix all day long, but those TV Show boxed sets I buy the day they come out. 20 or so hours of entertainment for $50 (or $20 on ebay). They seem like a pretty good deal to me.
I've come to the conclusion that the only way that anyone will make more TV I'd actually like to watch is if I spend money on the things that have been produced already. They wouldn't keep making Star Trek crap if people weren't buying the old stuff.
All that said, I see at least the entire first season on suprnova.org right now.
None of the above, actually. The (any software-) firewall isn't active at boot time, so there's a brief period of time when your PC have its network interface running without any protection whatsoever.
Supposedly this will be fixed in XPSP2.
A $30 Linksys NAT doohickey will keep the evil worm away, though.
Psst. Do a google for "Windows PE" sometime. It's a happy, beautiful thing. Other than the fact that it's based on XP, I mean, which I guess makes it a sad, emotionally scarring thing.
Good thing there's an internet!
I like my Elder Gods like I like my women: Squamous and Gibbous.
Master of Magic runs fine on all versions of Windows, and in DOSEmu, as long as you don't care about sound. Not too fast or too slow, either.
Man I wish someone would finish a Win32 (or Linux) port of that game! Even screen-scraping it to handle high-res graphics would be awesome. It really is right at the top of my personal "best games" list. I still play daily.
Yes. I want to spider all of Quantum. I have the bandwidth and I don't have a problem filling up terabytes of storage for no good reason. :)
:)
A slightly more reasonable answer is this: I spider A LOT of porn. I don't look at much of it - although VW is one place that I *do* visit with a browser instead of wget or httrack. I imagine that's the lure of a community site, but that also makes a lot of sites that're protected by quantum more interesting/desireable than some of the other things I normally just download.
Given the nature of porn - it comes up, exists for awhile, then goes offline - I like to snag it while it's available, in case, at some future time, I can't get to it any more. For instance, there's a particular poster at your site who used to have a Quantum site, before I decided it was worth $20-whatever/month. Then she went away, and closed her pay site, and it's driving me nuts that I can't look at the site that isn't there any more.
An automated spidering would hopefully prevent that sort of thing from happening in the future.
One of the big complaints I have with your system is that there's nothing I can do to automate logins. I hit quantum.proadult.com, I have to log in. I visit Redclouds, click on somebody's site link, and I've got to log in, again. Why isn't there something like an inter-site authentication mode? Depending on how that person's site was constructed, I may even have to go searching for their login page, hence the more-than-occasional resentment at having to do manual browsing for something that I'd rather download in its entirety.
If you read my recent posting history, you'll find that I'm basically a depressed, socially maladjusted loser with a pathological need to collect media of various sorts and who actually has the wherewithal to do so.
I have to do something with the ~16 movies a week Netflix sends me, between the ripping and the watching...
I use an NEC HT1000 proejctor, BTW. Beautiful picture.
My Catalyst 5005 was fairly a steal when I bought it at auction, but the lower-end Cisco products are actually limited in Gbit capacities by their backplane. I'm not sure about the 4000-series, but my 5005 only has a 4Gbps backplane, which isn't a whole lot for the types of installations where someone would normally have a Catalyst 5000-series with a Gbit blade.
Each PC costs about $15/month to leave on all the time, I think. On the other hand, my thermostat was set to 60 degrees all winter (in northwest Indiana) and it wasn't ever cold in my house. My "computer room" has its own AC for summer months, too.
GboC isn't anywhere near good enough, at least on cat6 cable and 32bit, 33MHz PCI cards, to hit 1000Mbit/sec. It's more like 300 - 350Mbit (technically, I'd be better off doing IP over firewire, in other words).
We're talking about ~40MB/sec in ideal conditions, and that's something most modern ATA drives can tolerate reasonably well. I use Samsung SP1614Ns for most of my storage, which can transfer 33MB/s - 57MB/s (inner/outer zone) and handle 40MB/sec across around 70% of the each disk.
So most of the time, at least in theory, it's not a problem.
Yeah, but as I recall, you're a netadmin for Voyeurweb, which isn't a small concern by any stretch of my imagination.
Is there any way for me to spider your paysites? I pay for quantum access, but I have to do those sites manually, and that really pisses me off.
You aren't trying very hard. The core of my home network - presently 9 PCs, includes four that are used as central stores of massive amounts (around 900GB apiece, give or take) of video content. Rather than pay the costs in trying to have redundant storage for all of it, I simple distribute everything to more than one machine.
Now, given that I'm talking about potentially moving around hundreds of single files in the ~4GB/file range, d'ya think Gbit is even a little justified?
Incidently, for the topic: All Gbit hardware auto-detects crossover, so I just built my backbone network by putting two cards in each of my fileservers and establishing routing between each host. Since Gbit switches are either too cheap to do jumbo frames, or cost more than I want to spend, that's an acceptable workaround. Each machine also has a link to one of the VLANs used by my "client" PCs on the plain old 100mbit network.
My fiance left me for another woman - I got to watch her transform into a lesbian over a period of weeks, but she couldn't articulate what was going on in her head... which is a large part of the reason for my extremely poor mental health, I think (I think that would shatter anyone, actually). I accept that gay people are gay but being in a city that's famous for its homosexual community probably wouldn't do much for my sanity - driving through the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago was enough to make me throw up.
Not only that, it's hard enough getting a computer-type job. I don't want to be competing with every unemployed geek in silicon valley.
As for professional help: SSRIs are prescribed like candy. I tell a doctor or psychiatrist I'm depressed and they'll hand me halloween-sized samples of whatever pill they're being paid to push: Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin. All of them have side effects, and after being on maximum doses of several different ones at different times, I can tell you that they certainly didn't help my mental state. I continued to have the same symptoms of borderline-suicidal depression and anxiety, only coupled with what I felt to be a slightly delayed response to the world around me.
"Talking" therapy I tried with four different therapists over the last two years (at $85 -$155/hr). I don't know who those people normally help; they didn't help me. Two barely seemed attentive at all. A third (I found out at our last session, a lesbian) seemed more interested and concerned with my ex. The forth was padding his bill by making me repeat everything I said four or five times. Those people aren't professionals. They're scam artists with diplomas.
I tried EMRD and hypnosis. I've had accupuncture done.
It's all bullshit.
At some point, I decided that I'd rather be the fool who keeps his money.
I'll bite and respond in a serious fashion:
1. Allergies make 3 of four seasons unpleasant for me. Snow handles the other one. I usually have to wear gloves and a mask to be outside for more than 10 minutes.
2. No social life. In my case, this is a literal truth. Zero. None. I'm severely depressed and suffer from accute social anxiety. Theoretically, the proper treatments for those conditions involve medication and acclimating myself to different conditions, but this has been an entirely negative experience for me, to the point that I'd rather just be a shut-in.
3. Minimal in common with anyone I might randomly meet. I don't like sports, drinking alcohol or any popular form of music. I'm not religious (this is a huge one in Indiana, where I live). My personal interests are not even remotely conducive to socialization.
4. Crippling shyness. Distinct from anxiety, I'm also very shy. I only speak when spoken to. I actually feign being mute in public, since that's easier for me than returning a greeting. I'd never, ever walk up to someone and say "hi." I've found that other people are not worth any amount of trust I put in them anyway, so the more distance I put between them and myself, the better off I am.
On the positive side for staying in:
1. I've spent a vast amount of money to have a place where I enjoy being, up to and including a small movie theater in my house and media access in every room; I have my books, the ever-changing internet and wonderfully comfortable furniture.
2. Home is where my pets are. They are a great comfort to me.
3. Climate control + air filters
"Life" may be out there, but in here, I am safe and comfortable, and I don't feel sick to my stomach for no good reason. No one says anything stupid or cruel about my appearance or obvious social deficiencies.
$3000 will also buy a brilliant 42" Samsung DLP monitor, which actually supports HDTV resolutions (the gateway display is EDTV-only), has more video inputs and doesn't burn in or ultimately leak the contents of its screen into open atmosphere.
I'm not commenting on your comment, but man, there is no way in hell Opera is faster for Porn browsing than Firebird with Linky and Magpie (now with bukstr and URL sanitizing support!).
Current versions of Opera still require me to click on individual links. What kind of bullshit is that?
Many years ago there was an ancient technology for the sending of messages. It was a small thing, clipped on a belt, and at times when it demanded attention, it would beep and vibrate, as was the style of that time.
This simple device, long forgotten by Important Professionals, remains in use in the wilds of inner city urban America.
Were it not for the economically disadvantaged, we might've forgotten all about the amazing power of this simple tool, and without it, the world would indeed be a poorer place, even for those Important Professionals whose lives have been forver altered by Stupid Management Decisions against the March of New Technology.
I probably couldn't fix the car, but I can tune or move a piano. So there. :P
While I'm at it: What's your criteria for your "personal search engine"? My media indexing for CDs and DVDs is handled by various ($$$) hardware from Escient, which works very well, even in the obnoxious quantities I work in.
For computer media, my system is a very simple mysql database. Video is pretty easy to categorize - usually I can copy and paste info from imdb or iafd and use that as keyword for my video, and that info is stored with a link to whatever filesystems those videos are stored on. I have another script that traverses MY shared directories, looking for new stuff to drop in appropriate places on full-time fileservers and to update the db with whatever is "pending" with no info or has moved to removable media/been deleted.
It's loose and it's ugly and pretty insecure but I can bring it up on any PC in my house, and it does what I need.
Pictures are... not well organized. Tagging millions of pictures with metadata is something IMO that requires prison labor. There's no other way it'd get done.