How does something like this work for things that are already compressed, like, say, anything that passes through mod_gzip, a V.44 modem connection,.zip/bz2/tgz files, JPEG/MPEG files... anything I can think of, that I'd want to get "faster", is probably already being compressed somewhere along the line. Possibly multiple times.
The only ways I can think of to speed things further, at least in the case of images, is to resize cached copies, like AOL does, and that's just not a pleasant idea, or to apply some drastically better compression.
I don't think this is anything like it's cracked up to be.
I thought that for a long time, but my $50 tbred XP1700s can pretty reliably hit 2GHz-ish (real speed up from 1.47GHz) on a 166MHz FSB, which makes DVD authoring or divx encoding a much less painful process (the FSB bump helps more than anything), literally cutting an hour off my wait time for those activities. Most people don't have any reason to do it. For that matter, most people don't have any reason to upgrade their P2 machines.
Unless you have to deal with someone like me. I hate talking to voice mail or answering machines, and I'll neither speak to them nor retrieve messages from them.
Tough shit if I miss a call, but hey, life goes on.
Come to think of it, I hate phones in general. But answering machines, they're just RUDE.
What do you do when your music doesn't get played on the radio?
For that matter, what do you do when your music doesn't get shared P2P? As far as I know, I'm the only major source on fasttrack for the music that I like, and well, I already have everything I'm sharing.:)
*I* never download a "current" song, nor anything that will likely see play on the local classical station, and I can tell you: there is no choice for those who are in that category. For me, sharing those files is a public service, a favor to the small crowd of people in the world who like the same music as me.
I'd even go so far as to say the ethical implications of sharing classical music are different from popular, but that's a different discussion altogether.
For best results, you should consider moving to RAID10, and ditch those low-capacity, failure-prone JBs for something a bit higher on the food chain. JBs feature an enhanced STR, true, but even a U-series from Seagate can handle the 15GB/hour of HuffYUV that video capture nuts need (a vidcap nut would of course be better to spend money on PC2700 RAM and a 333FSB processor). Keep those drives around, if you get into editing, but if you're like the rest of us, it's all "rip and encode"!
Maxtor's MaxLine 320 might not be out yet, but in a month, six of them should give you the data storage and redundancy we know you crave.
For those with lower-density pornographic needs, I recommend Samsung's SV120H4. 120GB, sure, but also quiet, reliable, cool and highly compatible with even the crappiest of Highpoint RAID controllers, the value-priced SpinPoint 120 is a winner all around. Maxtor's slightly higher-end 541DX is a real workhorse in this category as well.
Lastly, there's the matter of offline storage. CDs of course are convienent and commonplace, but switching discs every two and a half minutes is such a hassle! Multiple burners? Forget about it. Kick off one only to start another? Puh-LEASE! For your end-result pr0n storage, what you need is a 4X DVD-R drive, such as the Sony 500AX multi-format burner, and a copy of Ulead MovieFactory2 to handle the diverse array of sources and conditions that your source material arrives in. Downloaded from Kazaa? Yup. Capped off the scrambled PPV channels? Right-O!
And to top it off, for the stuff that isn't good enough to wind up on DVD, you can always make a data disc with a whopping 7(!) 670MB files.
--- slaker is a non-syndicated slashdot reader with a porn collection that exceeds the data storage of some small Eastern European nations.
I listen to 20th century classical music, mostly. Same deal.
It's really goddamn sad that I can't get 100 hits on "Miles Davis" from FastTrack, nor even someone as mainstream as Diana Krall. I won't even go into the annoyance of trying to find, say, Takemitsu or Arvo Pärt.
Even worse are the stores themselves. I *really* don't know why I bother at this point, but most stores I know have more shelf space devoted to Elton John than to classical music in general.
Retail settings for non-pop music are wretched things. The employees don't care; things aren't re-shelved properly, and recently I've noticed a trend in retail space to lump non-popular music together in the smallest and least-agreeable way. "John Tesh is classical, right? Better shelve that next to Tchaikovsky." (a local shop in my area actually does this).
At this point I'm actually anti-retail. They don't give a fuck about my $100 a week business (no, that's not a typo), so I'm not going to give a fuck about them. When I want a CD, I'll buy it on Ebay or at a swap meet. If I can't get it on ebay, I'll track it through used CD shops. I'm not giving retail/new establishments my money, though.
There are presently 16 computers in my 1000 square foot apartment, inculding a fullsized rack, external hotswap RAID cabinet and a Catalyst 5005. Most of that is crammed into one room, and the REALLY loud and ugly stuff is in a closet in that room, but of course the whole apartment had air conditioning running until just last month.
A number of issues present themselves. 1.) Exposed cabling - I went hardcore and rewired my apartment with cat5, in-wall, replacing the ancient 4-prong block connectors for phone, and adding four ethernet ports everywhere I found a jack. That helped things a lot. Because the electrical demands of my apartment are slightly, well, extreme, I put waist-high bookcases everywhere, and ran bundled extension cords and power cables behind them. I found a bunch of cheap but not unappealing ones at Kmart for $5 apiece. The bookcases are incredibly imposing, if I do say so myself. They're all full, either of books or CDs. 2.) Noise. *HUGE* problem. A lot of my PCs are simply enclosed somehow, either in closets, my rack or in computer desks. The RAID array and Catalyst are the biggest offenders, but my solution to that issue was to put them and the rest of their rack in an unused closet that I lined with carpet scraps. I went from being able to hear all those Barracudas while I was in the shower to having to open closet doors to make sure everything was running. For the rest of my apartment, I've chosen various tapestries and other cloth wall-hangings to deaden noise. This is quite effective but it DOES make speaker placement for my various home theater equipment more difficult. The final part of my noise-deadening and asthetic strategy is fake plants. I hit Lowe's, Sam's Club and Michael's for a selection of fake trees, branches and shrubs. I went out and hunted up some interesting-looking rocks to put around their bases. Fake plants do a great job absorbing noise. It's not that hard to wind cords through all those rocks, either, which helps with speaker and power cables.
My apartment is fucking gorgeous, if I do say so myself. Mission-style oak furniture (O'Sullivan even makes decent oak-finish mission-style computer furniture, and it's inexpensive), the trees and bookcases... it's a wonderful asthetic arrangement, and I was able to hide my computers well enough that those who visit, only able to see a couple of computer monitors and a pair of speakers, ask where the rest of my stuff is.
The only down side? I have to do quite a bit of dusting.:(
I worked for a large company where an in-house tool for resetting NTs passwords and unlocking accounts (pathetically stupid users. The kind that forget to breathe) from a single console app was called "bioya".
I used it for about a month, not giving any thought to the name, until one day in a fit of boredom I did
bioya/?
Usage: Blow it out your ass [domain\username]
I got a chuckle every time I used that program for the rest of that contract.
Not everyone has the opportunity or talent to find what they're looking for. Some people are cowed by the idea grabbing the stuff they really want. Asking for "Fat Grannies Volume 3" probably a little harder than picking up the lastest "Chasin' Pink".
One of my (female) office mates found out about my "collection" and asked for some gay male bondage stuff. Given that she's a young mom, I don't think she's got a lot of time to visit the sex shops where that stuff is easy to come by.
It sounds stupid, but porn makes for surprisingly good currency.
I duped a couple of DVDs and my phone installer put my lines outside the multiplexer for my apartment complex. I got 56k for the first time in my life.
When I moved I no problem getting a couple of guys to help me carry heavy things. And with my library, the fact that one of the guys wanted "tgirl" (transvestite) porn was not a problem.
Once, on a temp gig, it even got my a contract extension.
Everyone laughs and says "Hahaha look at the guy with the collection of dirty pictures"... and then when no one is looking they turn around and say "Hey, do you have that movie with Janine and Jenna and they're in Tuxedos..."
I have *way* (maybe 10 TB in CD form, about 2.5TB more online) more than that but I can say that anyone who collects in volume does NOT have time to view it all. At some point it just becomes very easy to obtain and it is obtained without thought or effort.
This would be cool except those guys are working with TV-out and not real VGA. TV out does not do text well.
I've got a 6" VGA monitor from a point of sale system on my server rack at home. It'd be cool to do something like this there, but I haven't found a decent small VGA LCD, either.
To recap: TV out is not so good for this application and your links point to TV out.
Number of tabs seems to be dependent on your available free graphics memory. Most of my machines have 64MB cards in them, but one only has an 8MB card.
Since it's my habit to visit voyeurweb.com and download everything I can find in a new tab (which usually loads about 10 60k images per page), I've discovered that I can usually open about 70 tabs before things go wonky.
I close a few tabs, and things go back to normal.
When I try the same thing with IE (LOTS of open windows since IE is teh l4m3 and doesn't do tabs), I usually get a crash or lockup at around 40 open windows.
Anyway, on the box I have that only have 8MB card in it, the number of tabs full of pictures I can open is much, much lower. Maybe 10 or 12, before wonkiness sets in. The 8MB graphics-card machine is a Linux box with a Matrox G100. The rest of my PCs are running W2k or Linux with some higher form of ATI card.
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Mod_gzip, anyone?
.zip/bz2/tgz files, JPEG/MPEG files... anything I can think of, that I'd want to get "faster", is probably already being compressed somewhere along the line. Possibly multiple times.
How does something like this work for things that are already compressed, like, say, anything that passes through mod_gzip, a V.44 modem connection,
The only ways I can think of to speed things further, at least in the case of images, is to resize cached copies, like AOL does, and that's just not a pleasant idea, or to apply some drastically better compression.
I don't think this is anything like it's cracked up to be.
Do people even really overclock anymore?
I thought that for a long time, but my $50 tbred XP1700s can pretty reliably hit 2GHz-ish (real speed up from 1.47GHz) on a 166MHz FSB, which makes DVD authoring or divx encoding a much less painful process (the FSB bump helps more than anything), literally cutting an hour off my wait time for those activities.
Most people don't have any reason to do it. For that matter, most people don't have any reason to upgrade their P2 machines.
HP Lovecraft references.
Y'know. Cthulhu. Nyarlathotep. Goat with a thousand young.
That sort of thing.
Ia!
Unless you have to deal with someone like me. I hate talking to voice mail or answering machines, and I'll neither speak to them nor retrieve messages from them.
Tough shit if I miss a call, but hey, life goes on.
Come to think of it, I hate phones in general. But answering machines, they're just RUDE.
I have a Duron 850 that kills motherboards AND memory. We could start a club!
What do you do when your music doesn't get played on the radio?
:)
For that matter, what do you do when your music doesn't get shared P2P? As far as I know, I'm the only major source on fasttrack for the music that I like, and well, I already have everything I'm sharing.
*I* never download a "current" song, nor anything that will likely see play on the local classical station, and I can tell you: there is no choice for those who are in that category. For me, sharing those files is a public service, a favor to the small crowd of people in the world who like the same music as me.
I'd even go so far as to say the ethical implications of sharing classical music are different from popular, but that's a different discussion altogether.
Mr. Heavyweight:
For best results, you should consider moving to RAID10, and ditch those low-capacity, failure-prone JBs for something a bit higher on the food chain. JBs feature an enhanced STR, true, but even a U-series from Seagate can handle the 15GB/hour of HuffYUV that video capture nuts need (a vidcap nut would of course be better to spend money on PC2700 RAM and a 333FSB processor). Keep those drives around, if you get into editing, but if you're like the rest of us, it's all "rip and encode"!
Maxtor's MaxLine 320 might not be out yet, but in a month, six of them should give you the data storage and redundancy we know you crave.
For those with lower-density pornographic needs, I recommend Samsung's SV120H4. 120GB, sure, but also quiet, reliable, cool and highly compatible with even the crappiest of Highpoint RAID controllers, the value-priced SpinPoint 120 is a winner all around. Maxtor's slightly higher-end 541DX is a real workhorse in this category as well.
Lastly, there's the matter of offline storage. CDs of course are convienent and commonplace, but switching discs every two and a half minutes is such a hassle! Multiple burners? Forget about it. Kick off one only to start another? Puh-LEASE! For your end-result pr0n storage, what you need is a 4X DVD-R drive, such as the Sony 500AX multi-format burner, and a copy of Ulead MovieFactory2 to handle the diverse array of sources and conditions that your source material arrives in. Downloaded from Kazaa? Yup. Capped off the scrambled PPV channels? Right-O!
And to top it off, for the stuff that isn't good enough to wind up on DVD, you can always make a data disc with a whopping 7(!) 670MB files.
---
slaker is a non-syndicated slashdot reader with a porn collection that exceeds the data storage of some small Eastern European nations.
I listen to 20th century classical music, mostly. Same deal.
It's really goddamn sad that I can't get 100 hits on "Miles Davis" from FastTrack, nor even someone as mainstream as Diana Krall. I won't even go into the annoyance of trying to find, say, Takemitsu or Arvo Pärt.
Even worse are the stores themselves. I *really* don't know why I bother at this point, but most stores I know have more shelf space devoted to Elton John than to classical music in general.
Retail settings for non-pop music are wretched things. The employees don't care; things aren't re-shelved properly, and recently I've noticed a trend in retail space to lump non-popular music together in the smallest and least-agreeable way. "John Tesh is classical, right? Better shelve that next to Tchaikovsky." (a local shop in my area actually does this).
At this point I'm actually anti-retail. They don't give a fuck about my $100 a week business (no, that's not a typo), so I'm not going to give a fuck about them. When I want a CD, I'll buy it on Ebay or at a swap meet. If I can't get it on ebay, I'll track it through used CD shops. I'm not giving retail/new establishments my money, though.
There are presently 16 computers in my 1000 square foot apartment, inculding a fullsized rack, external hotswap RAID cabinet and a Catalyst 5005. Most of that is crammed into one room, and the REALLY loud and ugly stuff is in a closet in that room, but of course the whole apartment had air conditioning running until just last month.
:(
A number of issues present themselves.
1.) Exposed cabling - I went hardcore and rewired my apartment with cat5, in-wall, replacing the ancient 4-prong block connectors for phone, and adding four ethernet ports everywhere I found a jack. That helped things a lot.
Because the electrical demands of my apartment are slightly, well, extreme, I put waist-high bookcases everywhere, and ran bundled extension cords and power cables behind them. I found a bunch of cheap but not unappealing ones at Kmart for $5 apiece.
The bookcases are incredibly imposing, if I do say so myself. They're all full, either of books or CDs.
2.) Noise. *HUGE* problem. A lot of my PCs are simply enclosed somehow, either in closets, my rack or in computer desks. The RAID array and Catalyst are the biggest offenders, but my solution to that issue was to put them and the rest of their rack in an unused closet that I lined with carpet scraps. I went from being able to hear all those Barracudas while I was in the shower to having to open closet doors to make sure everything was running.
For the rest of my apartment, I've chosen various tapestries and other cloth wall-hangings to deaden noise. This is quite effective but it DOES make speaker placement for my various home theater equipment more difficult.
The final part of my noise-deadening and asthetic strategy is fake plants. I hit Lowe's, Sam's Club and Michael's for a selection of fake trees, branches and shrubs. I went out and hunted up some interesting-looking rocks to put around their bases. Fake plants do a great job absorbing noise. It's not that hard to wind cords through all those rocks, either, which helps with speaker and power cables.
My apartment is fucking gorgeous, if I do say so myself. Mission-style oak furniture (O'Sullivan even makes decent oak-finish mission-style computer furniture, and it's inexpensive), the trees and bookcases... it's a wonderful asthetic arrangement, and I was able to hide my computers well enough that those who visit, only able to see a couple of computer monitors and a pair of speakers, ask where the rest of my stuff is.
The only down side? I have to do quite a bit of dusting.
I worked for a large company where an in-house tool for resetting NTs passwords and unlocking accounts (pathetically stupid users. The kind that forget to breathe) from a single console app was called "bioya".
/?
I used it for about a month, not giving any thought to the name, until one day in a fit of boredom I did
bioya
Usage: Blow it out your ass [domain\username]
I got a chuckle every time I used that program for the rest of that contract.
I just tried to search for "porn star" on dice.com, and I didn't get any results.
Damn. I was hoping porno was hiring.
Not everyone has the opportunity or talent to find what they're looking for. Some people are cowed by the idea grabbing the stuff they really want. Asking for "Fat Grannies Volume 3" probably a little harder than picking up the lastest "Chasin' Pink".
One of my (female) office mates found out about my "collection" and asked for some gay male bondage stuff. Given that she's a young mom, I don't think she's got a lot of time to visit the sex shops where that stuff is easy to come by.
If you're a VW admin, find your webslave and beat him. I get page display errors on all the your link pages in Mozilla 1.3 on Linux and Win32.
Love your site, though! One of the few I visit with a browser instead of perl+wget.
It sounds stupid, but porn makes for surprisingly good currency.
I duped a couple of DVDs and my phone installer put my lines outside the multiplexer for my apartment complex. I got 56k for the first time in my life.
When I moved I no problem getting a couple of guys to help me carry heavy things. And with my library, the fact that one of the guys wanted "tgirl" (transvestite) porn was not a problem.
Once, on a temp gig, it even got my a contract extension.
Everyone laughs and says "Hahaha look at the guy with the collection of dirty pictures"... and then when no one is looking they turn around and say "Hey, do you have that movie with Janine and Jenna and they're in Tuxedos..."
I have *way* (maybe 10 TB in CD form, about 2.5TB more online) more than that but I can say that anyone who collects in volume does NOT have time to view it all. At some point it just becomes very easy to obtain and it is obtained without thought or effort.
I rent a movie, I dupe a movie. Very simple.
This would be cool except those guys are working with TV-out and not real VGA. TV out does not do text well.
I've got a 6" VGA monitor from a point of sale system on my server rack at home. It'd be cool to do something like this there, but I haven't found a decent small VGA LCD, either.
To recap: TV out is not so good for this application and your links point to TV out.
Er, both "Buffy, the Vampire Layer" and "Muffy the Vampire Slayer" are already taken. I have both (the 2nd is the much better one, BTW).
:)
"Buffy" fan and someone willing to admit to porno-geekdom. Yup. Amazing I ever got a woman.
Regarding your .sig:
Would you feel the same way about saying those words if you were declaring your nation to be one nation under Allah or Zoroaster or Cthulhu?
Or if your money said "In Rael we trust"?
Maybe you can understand why the 9th circuit court did the right thing if you look at it that way.
Eh. I won the bet. It was worth $100.
Sorta. I pissed on an electric fence once.
Two semesters.
Apparently you've never been shocked in the testicles.
Why use statistics to cause pain to spammers when electrical shocks to the testicles work so much better?
There are tears in my eyes here, man. Thanks!
Number of tabs seems to be dependent on your available free graphics memory. Most of my machines have 64MB cards in them, but one only has an 8MB card.
Since it's my habit to visit voyeurweb.com and download everything I can find in a new tab (which usually loads about 10 60k images per page), I've discovered that I can usually open about 70 tabs before things go wonky.
I close a few tabs, and things go back to normal.
When I try the same thing with IE (LOTS of open windows since IE is teh l4m3 and doesn't do tabs), I usually get a crash or lockup at around 40 open windows.
Anyway, on the box I have that only have 8MB card in it, the number of tabs full of pictures I can open is much, much lower. Maybe 10 or 12, before wonkiness sets in.
The 8MB graphics-card machine is a Linux box with a Matrox G100. The rest of my PCs are running W2k or Linux with some higher form of ATI card.
So people can say you had a happy life.