The chart is for the old licensing scheme "Upgrade Advantage", not the current "Software Assurance" scheme. Thus, since UA has been discontinued there can be no revenue from it in 2005. What revenue they got from SA should be a different chart.
Tivo and SonicBlue Settle Dispute. According to this article at the Stereophile Guide to Home Theatre, Tivo and SonicBlue have decided to dismiss all patent-infringement claims 'without prejudice' and instead focus their energies on energizing the DVR market. 'We believe our energies are better spent expanding the market for DVRs rather than fighting each other,' the former adversaries said in a joint statement. The article also discusses their plans for marketing and also how they plan to respond to criticisms that the DVR market is doomed.
I would presume they probably got through discovery and realized it was a lose-lose battle and simply ended up cross-licensing each others' IP at the end of it.
ob MS footnote: Note that the old Echostar PVRs werea ctually developed by Microsoft and precursors to what became UltimateTV. Wonder if they'll sue MS too?;-)
This is a great remote! I've had one for a few years. It helps if some/all of your gear is Sony since it works out of the box. However the lack of soft keys can be daunting when programming devices with "unusual" commands such as a Tivo. (Where the *&^* did I put "Thumbs Up!" key?). When it croaks I'll proabably spring for the $80 MSRP RM-VL1000 that has a few soft keys.
Like anti-virus solutions, anti-spam solutions need constant updating. Make sure you are running the latest verion 2.61, with a well trained Bayesian database. The Popcorn, Backhair & Weeds ruleset another poster mentioned, and the detoken rules do wonders for me at work, but I don't seem to need tham at home.
It WAS working great since they first introduced it a few years ago until a few months ago. Now the hit rate is around 60% and dropping.
I think a lot of it has to do with the kind of spam you get. I get very different spams at home and at work. Perhaps brightmail would work fine on the work spam?
Balam
The easiest approach on Windows is SAProxy, which unfortunately is no longer free. I used this pop3proxy plus this How To SA on Win32 to roll my own. But if you're on unix, you could still use pop3proxy, but it sounds like you should read up on fetchmail.
Running Exchange and Windows, doesn't completely rule out free SpamAssassin. I've set up a free SA based filter on the Exchange system at work. It's a debian box running SA-Exim that sits in front of the Exchange box. Since we don't get that much volume, it can be handled by an old 266MHz PII box that's useless for any recent version of Windows, but is great for Linux.
I drop mail at a score of 20 (mostly dictionary attacks, Viagra ads...) and flag anything over 6. Outlook Rules can then be used to further act on the flagged messages.
Brightmail? Awesome? Not for me it ain't, at least not right now. My ISP (AT&T Worldnet) uses it and it is letting through sooo much obvious spam recently that I'm beginning to think the spammers must have figured out a way around Brightmail's rules.
FWIW, both Yahoo! and the new Hotmail filters are performing much better than brightmail for me now
Regardless, I download all my mail through a SpamAssassin POP3 proxy, which just plain knocks em dead.
Well, unless the contractor stapled the RG6 to studs you can just use the existing cable as a lead line to pull more through. You'll end up with some spare RG6 that way, but it's doable.
That was my thought when we bought the house. How hard could it be. It's stapled, plus some of the walls don't line up from floor to floor, so it's not even a straight shot.
I know what you mean.;-). In my last house I had some conduit put in behind my entertainment center from the attic to the crawl space when they were in to replace a shower stall, and the tileing contractors were asking if I was putting in central vacuum.;-)
In the next house (not any day soon, we just moved), I would actually rip us the drywall to gain this kind of flexibiliy.
Just by the by, the problem with splitting satellite cables is that the cable needs to carry a DC (Dish) or low frequency (DTV) signal back to the LNB to select which orbital position/transponder your channel is on.
Dish is pretty simple and you can pretty much put a switch anywhere you want, and the latest receivers have built in switches so you would only need one wire anyhow.
DTV is more complicated. To select all possible combinations from a 3 orbital position dish, you need a minimum of 4 wires at the point where you put the switch. For 1 orbital position dishes there are products that will "stack" two signals on one wire and "destack" them later. Sonora Design. Unfortunately I switched from Dish to DTV for some internationals channels and the TiVo, so I'm stuck.
These also don't help the fact that there is no phone jack there.;-(
Note that those thee terminals belong to the phone co!
In my last house (built 1955) I had similar problems. The wiring was crumbling, and I was getting a lot of noise and cross-talk between my two lines and solved most of my problems just by calling my phone co. and having them come out and install a modern demarcation point with capacity for 8 lines and modular jacks on my side of the demarc for debugging. I replaced all the wiring with Cat5, just in case, and this helped enormously.
Note that my current house (built 2001) isn't much better. Yes it has a modern demarc, but the builder skimped on the internal wiring and it's still wired the old fashioned way with only one pair of wires going to each phone line daisy-chained to other outlets. The house was "prewired" with Cat5 and RG6 but was not designed for flexibility as some of the outlets are in the wrong place for me, or don't have all the right connections. (e.g. I wanted a second RG6 and phone line for my DirecTV Tivo, but have so far been unable to find a way to route the wires there.
I was looking at Smoothwall a few months back, but found that I was scared off by the various versions etc... It really didn't seem clear if the GPL version would be supported for long. I ended up rolling my own Debian based system, but looked carefully at IPCop too.
(Actually just posting to eliminate some bad modding.)
I agree with you, but for the fact that unlike the dead tree or audio formats, the e-book has at least the potential to be full-text searchable. Which could be invaluable for the work in question.
Though not real time like a true RAID, I think what you're really after is something like rsync, as many other posters have mentioned. When this came up in an earlier story I found a like to Unison, which seems to be better for my needs at least.
I thought the usual game was for these kinds of retailers to sell model numbers that don't exist anywhere else, but have the same specs as a commonly available one, so that they can "honestly" deny any compettitive pricing claims.;-)
You can actually make a copy of your 2K CD-ROM and patch it with SP4 so that your fresh reinstall will be 2KSP4 right out of the gate. See here for more info. I've done this with SP2 and SP3 with great success.
Note: This only saves you the one reboot required after SP4. So you will still need to patch IE, WMP, etc... separately if you use them, and incur any reboots their installers require. However, you shoudn't need to reapply SP4 after each of those since it's your base install.
I ultimately settled on DiscSox DJ sleeves in an IKEA shelf for my Audio CD collection (~650 CDs), but I use CaseLogic folders/spindles for most of my data discs. (Stuff I need to find in the folders, spindles for archival stuff.)
The discsox DJ sleeves are great 'cause they can hold all the inserts from the jewel box, and the DJ insert tabs allow for quick scanning of the sleeves' contents.
The DiscSox aren't cheap at about $0.50/sleeve, but they hold up better than paper. There are many other sleeves like this on the market, but the discsox hold up better in my experience.
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Sorry it's actually a lowercase "p", so it's mega-pico-bits-per-second, i.e. nano-bits-per-second.;-)
I find that spamassassin's approach works really well and run it at home on Win32 following the instructions here.
If she's using POP3 to download her mail I can heartily recommend SAProxy which encapsulates Spamassassin as a POP3 proxy with a nice Windows installer & configuration screens.
I have not used this one but have heard great things about it: spambayes, a Python based Bayeian classifier with nice plugin for Outlook 2000/XP.
Last but not least, since Mcaffee bought Deersoft you can expect that their next version of SpamKiller should be at least as good as Spamassassin Pro was.
I agree that the choice of books is really a personal one and that the library is your friend. Particulalry given the cost of many of these books! This was exactly the point I was trying to make at the end of my post.
Yet, I have met quite a few people who just "clicked" with Landau and had used it as thier first introduction to QM. These tended to be students who were mathematically inclined and just loved solving the pages and pages of calculus that are required for a serious reading. (i.e. not me until I failed the qual the first time around;-) ).
I'm a Physics Ph.D. and I found the following most useful in grad school while studying for the quals.
Cohen-Tannoudji: very comprehensive, but perhaps overwhelming due to its heft/cost. Heavy into Dirac (bra-ket) notation.
Landau: requires the most calculus, lots left as "an exercise to the reader"
Sakurai: Probably the best place to start if you want an in depth yet introductory course.
But it really depends on YOU, I for one could only learn scattering from Landau, but found the book less than perfect for many other topics. Others in my class had quite the opposite reaction. It depends on what "clicks" for you, and how deep you want to go into what topics.
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The chart is for the old licensing scheme "Upgrade Advantage", not the current "Software Assurance" scheme. Thus, since UA has been discontinued there can be no revenue from it in 2005. What revenue they got from SA should be a different chart.
BalamFWIW the scientific term for this is the "Brazil Nut Effect", Google reveals tons of links once you know this.
BalamIf you have a Toshiba or HP notebook, Epson or Canon printer etc... these guys have lots of parts.
BalamTivo and SonicBlue Settle Dispute. According to this article at the Stereophile Guide to Home Theatre, Tivo and SonicBlue have decided to dismiss all patent-infringement claims 'without prejudice' and instead focus their energies on energizing the DVR market. 'We believe our energies are better spent expanding the market for DVRs rather than fighting each other,' the former adversaries said in a joint statement. The article also discusses their plans for marketing and also how they plan to respond to criticisms that the DVR market is doomed.
I would presume they probably got through discovery and realized it was a lose-lose battle and simply ended up cross-licensing each others' IP at the end of it.
ob MS footnote: Note that the old Echostar PVRs werea ctually developed by Microsoft and precursors to what became UltimateTV. Wonder if they'll sue MS too? ;-)
BalamThis is a great remote! I've had one for a few years. It helps if some/all of your gear is Sony since it works out of the box. However the lack of soft keys can be daunting when programming devices with "unusual" commands such as a Tivo. (Where the *&^* did I put "Thumbs Up!" key?). When it croaks I'll proabably spring for the $80 MSRP RM-VL1000 that has a few soft keys.
BalamLike anti-virus solutions, anti-spam solutions need constant updating. Make sure you are running the latest verion 2.61, with a well trained Bayesian database. The Popcorn, Backhair & Weeds ruleset another poster mentioned, and the detoken rules do wonders for me at work, but I don't seem to need tham at home.
BalamIt WAS working great since they first introduced it a few years ago until a few months ago. Now the hit rate is around 60% and dropping.
I think a lot of it has to do with the kind of spam you get. I get very different spams at home and at work. Perhaps brightmail would work fine on the work spam? Balam
The easiest approach on Windows is SAProxy, which unfortunately is no longer free. I used this pop3proxy plus this How To SA on Win32 to roll my own. But if you're on unix, you could still use pop3proxy, but it sounds like you should read up on fetchmail.
BalamRunning Exchange and Windows, doesn't completely rule out free SpamAssassin. I've set up a free SA based filter on the Exchange system at work. It's a debian box running SA-Exim that sits in front of the Exchange box. Since we don't get that much volume, it can be handled by an old 266MHz PII box that's useless for any recent version of Windows, but is great for Linux.
I drop mail at a score of 20 (mostly dictionary attacks, Viagra ads...) and flag anything over 6. Outlook Rules can then be used to further act on the flagged messages.
BalamBrightmail? Awesome? Not for me it ain't, at least not right now. My ISP (AT&T Worldnet) uses it and it is letting through sooo much obvious spam recently that I'm beginning to think the spammers must have figured out a way around Brightmail's rules.
FWIW, both Yahoo! and the new Hotmail filters are performing much better than brightmail for me now
Regardless, I download all my mail through a SpamAssassin POP3 proxy, which just plain knocks em dead.
BalamThat was my thought when we bought the house. How hard could it be. It's stapled, plus some of the walls don't line up from floor to floor, so it's not even a straight shot.
I know what you mean. ;-). In my last house I had some conduit put in behind my entertainment center from the attic to the crawl space when they were in to replace a shower stall, and the tileing contractors were asking if I was putting in central vacuum. ;-)
In the next house (not any day soon, we just moved), I would actually rip us the drywall to gain this kind of flexibiliy.
BalamJust by the by, the problem with splitting satellite cables is that the cable needs to carry a DC (Dish) or low frequency (DTV) signal back to the LNB to select which orbital position/transponder your channel is on.
Dish is pretty simple and you can pretty much put a switch anywhere you want, and the latest receivers have built in switches so you would only need one wire anyhow.
DTV is more complicated. To select all possible combinations from a 3 orbital position dish, you need a minimum of 4 wires at the point where you put the switch. For 1 orbital position dishes there are products that will "stack" two signals on one wire and "destack" them later. Sonora Design. Unfortunately I switched from Dish to DTV for some internationals channels and the TiVo, so I'm stuck.
These also don't help the fact that there is no phone jack there. ;-(
BalamNote that those thee terminals belong to the phone co!
In my last house (built 1955) I had similar problems. The wiring was crumbling, and I was getting a lot of noise and cross-talk between my two lines and solved most of my problems just by calling my phone co. and having them come out and install a modern demarcation point with capacity for 8 lines and modular jacks on my side of the demarc for debugging. I replaced all the wiring with Cat5, just in case, and this helped enormously.
Note that my current house (built 2001) isn't much better. Yes it has a modern demarc, but the builder skimped on the internal wiring and it's still wired the old fashioned way with only one pair of wires going to each phone line daisy-chained to other outlets. The house was "prewired" with Cat5 and RG6 but was not designed for flexibility as some of the outlets are in the wrong place for me, or don't have all the right connections. (e.g. I wanted a second RG6 and phone line for my DirecTV Tivo, but have so far been unable to find a way to route the wires there.My next house will have conduit in the walls
BalamSounds like the same ATA standard passwords that the XBOX uses. See for example http://www.siliconice.net/XBOX/Guides/hdd_password .shtml
BalamI was looking at Smoothwall a few months back, but found that I was scared off by the various versions etc... It really didn't seem clear if the GPL version would be supported for long. I ended up rolling my own Debian based system, but looked carefully at IPCop too.
(Actually just posting to eliminate some bad modding.)
BalamI agree with you, but for the fact that unlike the dead tree or audio formats, the e-book has at least the potential to be full-text searchable. Which could be invaluable for the work in question.
If this flies we wouldn't need Distributed Proofreaders anymore. BThough not real time like a true RAID, I think what you're really after is something like rsync, as many other posters have mentioned. When this came up in an earlier story I found a like to Unison, which seems to be better for my needs at least.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/Might be interesting to combine this with FSRaid (Parity Archive or PAR files) to get some extra redundancy.
BNews to me. Do you have any specifics?
I thought the usual game was for these kinds of retailers to sell model numbers that don't exist anywhere else, but have the same specs as a commonly available one, so that they can "honestly" deny any compettitive pricing claims. ;-)
BYou can actually make a copy of your 2K CD-ROM and patch it with SP4 so that your fresh reinstall will be 2KSP4 right out of the gate. See here for more info. I've done this with SP2 and SP3 with great success.
Note: This only saves you the one reboot required after SP4. So you will still need to patch IE, WMP, etc... separately if you use them, and incur any reboots their installers require. However, you shoudn't need to reapply SP4 after each of those since it's your base install.
BalamI ultimately settled on DiscSox DJ sleeves in an IKEA shelf for my Audio CD collection (~650 CDs), but I use CaseLogic folders/spindles for most of my data discs. (Stuff I need to find in the folders, spindles for archival stuff.)
The discsox DJ sleeves are great 'cause they can hold all the inserts from the jewel box, and the DJ insert tabs allow for quick scanning of the sleeves' contents.
The DiscSox aren't cheap at about $0.50/sleeve, but they hold up better than paper. There are many other sleeves like this on the market, but the discsox hold up better in my experience.
BalamSorry it's actually a lowercase "p", so it's mega-pico-bits-per-second, i.e. nano-bits-per-second. ;-)
Now that's slow!
BalamIf she's using POP3 to download her mail I can heartily recommend SAProxy which encapsulates Spamassassin as a POP3 proxy with a nice Windows installer & configuration screens.
I have not used this one but have heard great things about it: spambayes, a Python based Bayeian classifier with nice plugin for Outlook 2000/XP.
Last but not least, since Mcaffee bought Deersoft you can expect that their next version of SpamKiller should be at least as good as Spamassassin Pro was.
BalamI agree and disagree.
I agree that the choice of books is really a personal one and that the library is your friend. Particulalry given the cost of many of these books! This was exactly the point I was trying to make at the end of my post.
Yet, I have met quite a few people who just "clicked" with Landau and had used it as thier first introduction to QM. These tended to be students who were mathematically inclined and just loved solving the pages and pages of calculus that are required for a serious reading. (i.e. not me until I failed the qual the first time around ;-) ).
BalamBut it really depends on YOU, I for one could only learn scattering from Landau, but found the book less than perfect for many other topics. Others in my class had quite the opposite reaction. It depends on what "clicks" for you, and how deep you want to go into what topics.
Balam
Looks pretty big from Seattle. ;-)
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