Comic Con just happened and that is where these horrible cam trailers are coming from. tr2n was probably the worst cam shot I've seen to date.
There was a Bruce Campbell q&a cam that was really bad, but the audio was at least decent. Surprisingly, he still manages to be funny even though you can tell he is really tired of hearing the same questions.
Kevin smith also has a q&a interview from I think this years comic con.
From what I read, the wolverine trailer was also at comic con. There are probably similar ones out there as well.
All good stuff, but I was surprised at the actual amount of comic related stuff I didn't hear about from comic con. (Though I admit I actually didn't look for any of it. )
If I recall correctly and if regulation still stands as it used to.
Cable ops actually can't modify a terrestrial broadcast signal. This includes down converting and I would assume also refers to compression. (Though I could be wrong on the compression).
This probably only applies to must carry and re-transmission agreements can do pretty much anything.
However, the TFA is right, though they seem to make it a mysterious new thing. There is very little regulation on the actual signal. Most of the regulations are in regard to specifications of the protocol and transmission power.
It was fairly evident from the beginning this was merely about bandwidth re-allocation.
I haven't read over the fcc regs in a while... so things can and do change.
For me, once I report my pda lost, the boys in corp will send a command to wipe the contents of the phone and remove all settings. I believe this option also exists for blackberry.
As well initiate the self destruct code on the small thermonuclear charge.
The problem I've had with dd-wrt and torrents is the max tcp connections is by default very low. Not something you would notice under normal traffic, but during swarms it can fill up fairly quickly.
It give the appearance the unit has locked up since it is difficult to establish a tcp connection. These will bleed away eventually and allow a connection to be established.
I just set the max number of tcp ports and it fairs fairly well using bit torrent now.
I have multiple vnc sessions specified attached to specific users.
It's fairly straight forward, just vnc in to the host:1 or host:2 (ultravnc supports this behavior) and bammo. I'm not sure how to get any more persistent.
I have no idea how well this scales, but it currently supports 3 people just fine.
If it's going to be accessible to the world, you may want to insert your favorite ACL's combined with a tasty dash of vpn. (ala ssh tunneling or any other setup of your voice)
Basically, you have a huge cluster and you want to do something fun.
Created a distributed controller application that spawns various systems and processes. When a group of controller nodes no longer detect one running... move it out of the group and reform another control node. Next, that group of nodes spawn another controller and move the address over to the new node.
Now, inject some random madness so nodes break on occassion. (Make it variable so you can pop nodes off left and right if wanted).
I say if you can perfect that then you can do something else with your randomly unreliable application cluster.
Who knows what kind of madness might spawn from that.
The fedora problem is not so big with a third party distro.
I use it at home on my beast of a myth box. It has all the shiny things working quite nicely. (volume nob, lcd panel, remote, two tuners and a qam card).
Anyhow, after I rebuilt the box, I decided I'm going to see how far I can get without having to compile anything.
On the last iteration, it was a combination of compiled stuff and rpms. It worked well for what it was, but if I needed to update it could potentially cause a headache. (Well, more like an investment in time and depending on the day I may not have it)
In any event, one of my favorite repos is atrpms. It provides pretty much everything I need and there are a few others that provide handy rpm binaries.
A bit of a warning and note this might have changed in recent years. Mixing third party repos, unless they are specialized, is sometimes a bit of a gamble.
In any event, unless something is terribly broken, I generally don't update once I'm in a working state.
My only compiled bit was the lcd driver, but this is due to a required source patch.
Everything pretty much just worked last time. It was disappointingly easy. (Well, the xorg.conf fought with me for a bit, but this was my first time with nvidia tv out on linux)
A very long time ago, around the original Live series, nearly everyone I knew that had one was experiencing issues.
Driver updates from creative are about as existence as the human link. (Who I know was an old manager of mine, but has since changed his identity)
In any event, in the lab one day someone had written out a huge long ass ftp link for compaq's website. It was some ungodly (150mb) download that had no description. Apparently, Live drivers were not up to snuff for compaq and win2k. After installing that release... damn near every problem went away and the sound card worked better then ever.
How it was discovered I will never know, but many a cd-r were distributed after that
People might not have noticed up until now though.
The compression essentially scales dynamically with popularity.
So, you might have the home and garden channel, but if it isn't getting viewers it's getting it's compression slammed. SCI-Fi, in my old area, was awful on Saturday evening. I fiddled with my mythbox forever wondering why it was just so horrible and then caught it live one evening.
That said, once motorola releases an H264 based unit and not an mpeg2 receiver... there will be plenty of bandwidth. Well, assuming the rush to fill their service with tier 3 HD channels doesn't ruin it. This is all contingent on fast, affordable h264 decoding chips and I really haven't seen a good deal yet.
My big beef with FiOS is just wondering when the bait and switch will happen. I hear great things about it now, but I'm just wondering when they will turn to the cheap. Any FiOS guys want to tell us the diabolical plans in store? (I'll take made up ones too)
They can't unless they sign retransmission agreement which gives them that right. (Not sure who would agree to it, but it's possible)
Otherwise, if I recall correctly, they have to send it as they get it. This specifically applies to those are being transmitted via "Must Carry" and have not forgone that right in lieu of a retrans agreement.
Though I'm not up to speed on my FCC regs as I used to be... so some things may have changed.
Having worked in both fields as engineering, IT, support, etc I can safely say there are those that coast and those that are brilliant.
I've witnessed on more then one occassion where the engineering camp coasts by and they generally don't make it too far. (Well, scratch that, there are a lot of bad comp eng folks out there.)
However, I've also seen some brilliant film guys who can do it all. From digital arts, directing and even camera work. I've also managed to run into a good deal who have no place in the world they live.
The only advice I can ever give to students is to live their work.
Go beyond the class room, take examples and experiment with what you are given. Find ways to combine all the works you have and make something tick. Even if it doesn't do very much you will have conquered the very worst part of the puzzle. Understand the pieces and eventually you will be able to understand the puzzle. Eventually, everything just clicks and you are left with "understanding".
I've given that speech to several kids as they were growing and if they listen it will usually make those finals a lot easier. I've also given it to some talented film kids and they have done OK. (One of them recently one an amateur commercial contest, but sadly I have no speech for how to conserve those winnings.)
Surprisingly enough, there are fields that pay much better which require a broad range of expertise.
However, no one will dare mention all of the real requirements. You see, the valid candidates will run screaming away because it looks to be too much, but what you end up with is a person who scoffs at all the extra that wasn't mentioned when he was hired.
Thus, eventually the cycle continues until you no longer need the jack of all trades and have many very specialized people who cannot get anything completed.
I'll admit I flipped over the article only briefly, but it does look like they know where their bandwidth is going.
Now I'm left to wonder why they haven't implemented caching servers for all the popular media sites they log. It seems like in one month it would rather pay for itself.
Slashdot Mirror
I find in my area there are a great number of places to cycle at. (Trails, suburban areas and even huge tracks of land)
However, none of that stops the cyclist from making traffic a nightmare.
Me, I do cycle, but I also have the sense not to screw around in high traffic areas.
I really haven't seen a good deal near the highway since I witnessed an accident though.
Bike vs Car, car wins.
Funny thing about the gym....
It's the only place you can be surrounded by hundreds of people and still be alone.
Most everyone there was always much like myself and immersed in their routine. (With headphones on as well).
For me, who at times is socially questionable, didn't bother me a bit.
Seriously, you get more interaction at a grocery store.
Comic Con just happened and that is where these horrible cam trailers are coming from. tr2n was probably the worst cam shot I've seen to date.
There was a Bruce Campbell q&a cam that was really bad, but the audio was at least decent. Surprisingly, he still manages to be funny even though you can tell he is really tired of hearing the same questions.
Kevin smith also has a q&a interview from I think this years comic con.
From what I read, the wolverine trailer was also at comic con. There are probably similar ones out there as well.
All good stuff, but I was surprised at the actual amount of comic related stuff I didn't hear about from comic con. (Though I admit I actually didn't look for any of it. )
Seems like it was an OK event all in all.
Just try telling your friends to browse slashdot.
http:///..com is generally the end result.
Weren't their numbers in the toilet anyway?
I never really had a desire to pick it up and I wasn't impressed with any of my friends purchases.
I'm sure some people like the 24/7 larry the cable guy channel.
Now, I did consider XM when they had the PC interface, but that died with the product.
If I recall correctly and if regulation still stands as it used to.
Cable ops actually can't modify a terrestrial broadcast signal. This includes down converting and I would assume also refers to compression. (Though I could be wrong on the compression).
This probably only applies to must carry and re-transmission agreements can do pretty much anything.
However, the TFA is right, though they seem to make it a mysterious new thing. There is very little regulation on the actual signal. Most of the regulations are in regard to specifications of the protocol and transmission power.
It was fairly evident from the beginning this was merely about bandwidth re-allocation.
I haven't read over the fcc regs in a while... so things can and do change.
Not to mention...
The remote nuke option.
For me, once I report my pda lost, the boys in corp will send a command to wipe the contents of the phone and remove all settings. I believe this option also exists for blackberry.
As well initiate the self destruct code on the small thermonuclear charge.
The problem I've had with dd-wrt and torrents is the max tcp connections is by default very low. Not something you would notice under normal traffic, but during swarms it can fill up fairly quickly.
It give the appearance the unit has locked up since it is difficult to establish a tcp connection. These will bleed away eventually and allow a connection to be established.
I just set the max number of tcp ports and it fairs fairly well using bit torrent now.
I have multiple vnc sessions specified attached to specific users.
It's fairly straight forward, just vnc in to the host:1 or host:2 (ultravnc supports this behavior) and bammo. I'm not sure how to get any more persistent.
I have no idea how well this scales, but it currently supports 3 people just fine.
If it's going to be accessible to the world, you may want to insert your favorite ACL's combined with a tasty dash of vpn. (ala ssh tunneling or any other setup of your voice)
Of course I use screen for console!
Basically, you have a huge cluster and you want to do something fun.
Created a distributed controller application that spawns various systems and processes. When a group of controller nodes no longer detect one running... move it out of the group and reform another control node. Next, that group of nodes spawn another controller and move the address over to the new node.
Now, inject some random madness so nodes break on occassion. (Make it variable so you can pop nodes off left and right if wanted).
I say if you can perfect that then you can do something else with your randomly unreliable application cluster.
Who knows what kind of madness might spawn from that.
Been there seen that.
Welcome to the converted brother.
Wikipedia - Stomping Grounds For Your POV
Or they are waiting for their warrantied repair work to be completed.
Those things take forever!
Ol' bin should have saved his cash and just paid for the repairs flat out.
I didn't really feel the article highlighted all of the controversy around katz.
The commodore 64 story is fairly golden, but it didn't really touch on the hellmouth issues at all.
Buy em anything. Anything except from that catalogue. The prices are rather horrid.
Me, I say give em a can of coke and some pop rocks.
Now that is entertainment for hours.
Follow it up with a bowl of rice crispies.
Each time they ask why these things do what they do... lie... lie a lot and change it each time.
I know it's definitely been here before.
Somewhere on slashdot, I have notes on calculating the distance, line loss and dish gains.
The only notable difference, I believe with directional antennas you can now do above one watt.
It's all here, scattered,
The fedora problem is not so big with a third party distro.
I use it at home on my beast of a myth box. It has all the shiny things working quite nicely. (volume nob, lcd panel, remote, two tuners and a qam card).
Anyhow, after I rebuilt the box, I decided I'm going to see how far I can get without having to compile anything.
On the last iteration, it was a combination of compiled stuff and rpms. It worked well for what it was, but if I needed to update it could potentially cause a headache. (Well, more like an investment in time and depending on the day I may not have it)
In any event, one of my favorite repos is atrpms. It provides pretty much everything I need and there are a few others that provide handy rpm binaries.
A bit of a warning and note this might have changed in recent years. Mixing third party repos, unless they are specialized, is sometimes a bit of a gamble.
In any event, unless something is terribly broken, I generally don't update once I'm in a working state.
My only compiled bit was the lcd driver, but this is due to a required source patch.
Everything pretty much just worked last time. It was disappointingly easy. (Well, the xorg.conf fought with me for a bit, but this was my first time with nvidia tv out on linux)
A very long time ago, around the original Live series, nearly everyone I knew that had one was experiencing issues.
Driver updates from creative are about as existence as the human link. (Who I know was an old manager of mine, but has since changed his identity)
In any event, in the lab one day someone had written out a huge long ass ftp link for compaq's website. It was some ungodly (150mb) download that had no description. Apparently, Live drivers were not up to snuff for compaq and win2k. After installing that release... damn near every problem went away and the sound card worked better then ever.
How it was discovered I will never know, but many a cd-r were distributed after that
People might not have noticed up until now though.
The compression essentially scales dynamically with popularity.
So, you might have the home and garden channel, but if it isn't getting viewers it's getting it's compression slammed. SCI-Fi, in my old area, was awful on Saturday evening. I fiddled with my mythbox forever wondering why it was just so horrible and then caught it live one evening.
That said, once motorola releases an H264 based unit and not an mpeg2 receiver... there will be plenty of bandwidth. Well, assuming the rush to fill their service with tier 3 HD channels doesn't ruin it. This is all contingent on fast, affordable h264 decoding chips and I really haven't seen a good deal yet.
My big beef with FiOS is just wondering when the bait and switch will happen. I hear great things about it now, but I'm just wondering when they will turn to the cheap. Any FiOS guys want to tell us the diabolical plans in store? (I'll take made up ones too)
They can't unless they sign retransmission agreement which gives them that right. (Not sure who would agree to it, but it's possible)
Otherwise, if I recall correctly, they have to send it as they get it. This specifically applies to those are being transmitted via "Must Carry" and have not forgone that right in lieu of a retrans agreement.
Though I'm not up to speed on my FCC regs as I used to be... so some things may have changed.
And now you know and knowing is half the battle. G.I. Hoe!
The blade cuts both ways I'm afraid.
Having worked in both fields as engineering, IT, support, etc I can safely say there are those that coast and those that are brilliant.
I've witnessed on more then one occassion where the engineering camp coasts by and they generally don't make it too far. (Well, scratch that, there are a lot of bad comp eng folks out there.)
However, I've also seen some brilliant film guys who can do it all. From digital arts, directing and even camera work. I've also managed to run into a good deal who have no place in the world they live.
The only advice I can ever give to students is to live their work.
Go beyond the class room, take examples and experiment with what you are given. Find ways to combine all the works you have and make something tick. Even if it doesn't do very much you will have conquered the very worst part of the puzzle. Understand the pieces and eventually you will be able to understand the puzzle. Eventually, everything just clicks and you are left with "understanding".
I've given that speech to several kids as they were growing and if they listen it will usually make those finals a lot easier. I've also given it to some talented film kids and they have done OK. (One of them recently one an amateur commercial contest, but sadly I have no speech for how to conserve those winnings.)
And that is what I love about Bruce...
Back when Bruce and HP/Compaq parted ways, he gave out your info to freely answer questions.
I copied and pasted that into a text file.
Sometime long after, I decided to show how elite I was and I pasted that info into some irc channel.
I remember someone shitting themselves when you answered the phone.
Good times!
Surprisingly enough, there are fields that pay much better which require a broad range of expertise.
However, no one will dare mention all of the real requirements. You see, the valid candidates will run screaming away because it looks to be too much, but what you end up with is a person who scoffs at all the extra that wasn't mentioned when he was hired.
Thus, eventually the cycle continues until you no longer need the jack of all trades and have many very specialized people who cannot get anything completed.
Welcome to Corporate America.
I'll admit I flipped over the article only briefly, but it does look like they know where their bandwidth is going.
Now I'm left to wonder why they haven't implemented caching servers for all the popular media sites they log. It seems like in one month it would rather pay for itself.
With a bit of an update to my original rant. (oh it was quite that)
I've found at least one site with the majority of the receivers in the $44 dollar mark. (sold out of course)
I'm honestly surprised beyond believe they only want 4$ plus shipping/handling.