Since it was a real office, having 'virtually nothing' in it means that he imagined it to be an empty space. Reality never was allowed to intrude upon this view, so the fact he couldn't open the door to get into the office means nothing...
First up, media center. If you can put the drives together into a server (or at most two) that you can keep in a closet (remember to make sure it has good air circuilation) you can use a very small front end, such as a Haupauge MediaMVP that plugs into your TV and audio system to deal with most if not all your TV and Sound needs. I can't recomend it as a complete solution, as I am running into limitations with this, but you could alternatively use a laptop with s-video or dvi out, as well as an Audiology SB pcmcia card to work as a front end. There are even solutions that make use of an X-Box to be a front end for MythTV, which means that you would also have a DVD player you can use as needed. The upcoming Sony PS3 may provide you with the hardware you need to do most if not all of your Media Center, including being a game station if you don't like the X-Box for some reason.
For tips on how to make use of a small space for storage, start watching H&G TV, particularly Mission Organization, and This Small Space. Both should be used as 'idea' generators for how to par down, as well as re-organize your stuff to make your place feel larger than it is.
If the 6'x6' table is a family heirloom, you may want to check with family to see if someone else may get better use of it. At the same time if both of you are happy with the decision to hold onto it, pretty much ignore the other comments here. It's only 36 square feet, and should not be taking up a significant percentage of your place. You will be better off finding replacements for other furniture.
That's just my views though, and I am hardly the paragon of good use of a small space. Moved from a fully furnished and cluttered house, to a fully furnished and cluttered house, into a 1 bedroom apartment in under a year. I still have furniture I need to get rid of.
Actually, Yes. Anyone can ask for cash from anyone else, with no promise of any return, or even any claim that the person doing the asking is a charity. There is nothing illegal in that.
If the person being asked to give, decides for themselves that what is being asked is reasonable for them to give, and they choose to give some ammount in response, that's perfectly legal as well.
Granted using extortion/strong arm tactics in the asking would make that act illegal, but that does not appear to have happened here.
My own bank has set up accounts that any customer may deposit money to, and all funds that are deposited to those accounts will be delivered to the Red Cross, and the Salvation Army, (I seem to recall.) One of the reasons that they are willing to do that is that it makes handling the donations at the various charities significantly easier. Rather than having 5,000 $30, and 2,000 $250 checks that they have to account for, they get one check for the total $5,150,000 (*which the bank has to explain to the feds to preclude concerns over money laundering) and a printout of those people who wish to be acknoledged for their donations.
PayPal can be considered to be doing the 'right thing' only in that they have frozen the account of a customer that has had some suspicious activity. That freeze should have been lifted by now as the investigation would have shown that that 'suspicious activity' is reasonable for the situation.
Not sure entirely myself, however as a thought, having a constant twist (different from one pair to the next, but the same for the length of the cable) could set up a situation where two cables are in phase at several points alog the cable run, and some signal transfer may hapen.
Varying the twist rate along the run of a pair, as well as doing what you can to keep it out of phase with other pairs by braiding, or other means would make it possible to set up a longer cable run without viable phase transfer points that could cause signal bleed between pairs.
However that's just conjecture on my part. I am sure someone will come along who can give us the math to show that my conjecture is entirely wrong.
I stand corrected. Per the documentation, On battery it draws 2.5W, on AC adapter it drawss 6.2W.
As otherwise noted, Watts will not change by voltage, though current will. The brick is a 13W power source, at 5.0V. i.e. it provides about 2 amps of power, i.e. it has a loss of some 3 watts. (though some of that loss is very likely to be simply calculation error allowance.)
Nope, I didn't get a geek licence. Just happen to be one...
... that should be reasonably in-expensive, as well as not drawing all that much power.
Go to e-bay and pick up a Zaurus SL-5500, check price watch for a 1 gig SD card, and find a network adapter that works in your environment. (10/100 wired Hawking cf-network card, or linksys wifi cf card perhaps.)
Add Apache, to make it a web server, Samba to make it a file server. Granted it won't have a lot of storage space, but if you are just looking for something to host a small personal web site, do a bit of programing in perl or python, it may be enough.
Asside from the flash SD card, you should be able to pick up the 5500 and network adapter for under $200. 1 Gig SD cards are under $100 in my area of the states, don't know about in Germany.
The power brick draws something like 1800mw at 110v, so 900mw at 220. So, less than a watt of power to compare against the other alternatives listed. You don't have to build an entirely new system, and figure out what of it will work with Linux, (it's already running Linux) and so on.
Is it a perfect solution? Probably not. Can it work? Sure.
There is one serious downside to PDFs when it comes to content presentation. When viewed onscreen, 12 point type is preferable to 10 point type. However if you are going to print the document, on paper, 10 point type has several advantages over 12 point type, not the least of which is the amount of paper you end up with.
Once you export your document to PDF, the recipient can not make any change to the point size of the document.
As a further down side, if you are reading the document on any pda, you end up needing to scroll side to side for every line of text you read, simply because you can not dynamically re-wrap the text to fit within a screen. Granted you can get the page to be one screen wide, but in most cases this makes the text small enough that you can tell there is something on the page, but not read it.
Ok, you say, "Use pdf2txt (or something like that) to export the text. Arn't you happy now?" Nope. Now you loose all formating for fonts, any embeded graphics, etc. This makes technical documents pretty much useless again.
If you are going to publish something that you expect people to read on a wide variety of platforms, or even may be reading on a pda while waiting to go to an interview or something, it is far more useful to use.rtf, or even.html.
And while the above is my own view, I don't think I am alone in this. In fact this has a lot to do with why the Baen Free Library does not publish to.pdf files.
Perhaps the biggest problem with this is that the MAC of the access point will very rarely be the address that the network traffic will be sourced from. Likewise the source MAC address in packets through the AP may be in the approved address list as well.
About the only way you can really lock this down via MAC addresses is to restrict what MAC can appear on what Switch port in your network. This does require that you have managed switches.
Another thing to do would be to check the mac list in your DHCP server and compare that against the OUI list at the IEEE. You would then want to check the addresses that resolve to fairly well known AP manufacturers, (D-Link, Hawking, Linksys, etc.). Now point a web broser at those IP addresses and see which of them comes up with a login for an AP. Try the default passwords for each manufacturer's products, and if you get in, shut down the wireless side, and reset the password to something a bit more secure.
If you can't get in, then if you have managed switches, find the port the device is on, and disable it.
If you have a policy in place that only end devices are allowed on your network, i.e. no hubs, APs, etc, and you have a managed switch, you may be able to find several offending ports with multiple active MAC addresses on the port. (Cisco switche may call these either mac or cam entries) Once you eliminate known trunk or inter-switch ports, ports with multiple active addresses are likely to have an unmanaged network device attached that should not be allowed. You may be able to restrict it to the authorized mac address at the switch.
One really 'nasty' thing to do would be to authorize the MAC address for the AP, so that the user can manage it, can release and renew it's IP address with the DHCP server, etc. yet nothing that attaches to the AP would be able to connect to anything, or even get an IP address. The exception would be AP Routers that are offering their own DHCP server and NATing the traffic. Then shutting down the port would be the easiest solution.
Actually locating the AP via it's radio beacon is chancy in most buildings.
The fact that you are sending an encrypted email may hide what you have to say, but it doesnt hide the communication itself.
This may be true for e-mail, but would you say it is true for credit card transactions with an https server as well? Or is that communication clearly an indication that you have something to hide because it is encrypted? You must be a terrorist because you did use encryption in some communication with bn.com.
Likewise if you are using a VPN to connect to your corporate headquarters to get some work done, the fact that your communications is encrypted has nothing to do with your companies corporate security policy, it's clear that you are a terrorist attempting to hide your research and communications activities.
As an asside, how are they going to enforce such logging? Will ISPs be required to do transparent proxying for all protocols in existence to capture the specific information in the requests? If not then knowing that you communicated with a rackspace server on port 80 will not tell anyone what website you went to. So far as I know dns servers do not log dns lookups, and it would be foolhearty to start doing so. Is the reason that you are looking up an alternet.com name because you just got some spam from them and your e-mail server is checking to see if they are in the RBL or is it because the e-mail had a link embeded in such a way as to cause your e-mail client to automatically load that image, confirming that your e-mail address is correct?
Is the traffic to ther IRC server in Italy there because you now have an owned pc that is going to be spaming and participating in ddos attacks, or because you are chatting with your cousin in Rome?
Obviously all that traffic on port 666 is for people practicing their co-ordinated entry and kill tactics.
All that traffic on udp/123 is to make sure you and your buddies all have syncronized timepieces to co-ordinate your attacks.
Just because you are sending encrypted e-mail does not mean that your messages are suspect. No more than the fact that you don't just write down your bank routing and account number on a post card to pay your bills.
Compaq did, on at least two occasions. The LTE Elite series, and I think the Aero series had a trackball built into the right hand side of the screen.
Two problems cropped up regularly. It's a pain to clean. The buttons end up being on the outside of the case, subject to impact and damage. Also a lot of people did not like the size of the trackball ball. It was about half inch in diameter, with proportionatly small wheels. (The 'marbled' coloring logiteck uses hadn't been thought of yet.)
For todays laptops even this is probably too large of a device. It definately would not be installed in the screen, and for ultra thin laptops putting one to the side of the keyboard may be too much.
Possibly the easiest would be to set up a collection of winframe servers in your server farm, and attach to them as needed via rdesktop from your Linux desktops.
Then again, I have not implemented this, so your experience may differ.
There are instructions for how to get it running as a front end for MythTV.
First up is to set up a tftp server on your dhcp server. You might be able to do this with software for a Linksys 54g firewall/router, but you would probably be better off running both on a dedicated server behind your firewall, rather than on it.
On the server you will need to have available the appropriate client image for the MVP to load up. That includes pre-configuring that image with the information on how to connect to your MythTV back end. There are instructions at http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MediaM VP_LinuxHOWTO for anyone really interested.
Another high school station that is primarily listener supported, and has had a streaming media presence for a couple of years now, is http://www.jazz88fm.com/
Their prime focus is Jazz music, with a very popular Bluegrass series on Saturday mornings. They have done a lot of local event coverage, including weekly episodes at various jazz venues in the Minnesota Twin Cities area.
There are actually two possible questions out of this, "Two shares with the same name, but are different files." and "Two sources of the same file, shared seprately."
Lets say you and I both recorded the latest Britney_Spears story on ET. We each grabbed from the first frame of the story as our recordings captured it, to the last frame of the story. It happens the there was a comercial break in the middle of the story, which we have each clipped out. However our clips are not identical, and if we are both capturing from an analog source, our actual files will be different. Even if we both share the file as 'ETBritneyInterview.mpeg2' our file hashes will be different, so there will be no collision.
Next up... Joe is a fan of Ubuntu Linux, and tracks down an ISO file for it. Puts it on his web server with a.torrent file for it, then advertizes the.torrent file on his blog. Al, Bob, Cathy, Doris, Plauge, Faith, and Garth all decide to download a copy. Some because he is making it available on his blog, others because they saw a reference to it on hos blog, but decide to go to the source and download the ISO from there. The transactions that are using the.torrent file from Joe's blog are not going to be sharing transfer space with the transactions from the official torrent site.
Last up, I create an ISO for some new distribution of Linux, and create a trackerless.torrent file for it, put the iso and.torrent on my web server, and link to the.torrent in my blog. Heather downloads the.torrent as part of her collection of that ISO, likes the file, so she puts my.torrent on her server, linking it with a blog entry, then leaves her client sharing the.iso file. In this situation, both of us would be sharing the bandwidth of distributing the.iso.
Now that's not to say that any of these will work for your setup. Probably not, since you indicate you are running SageTV, which I probably will not be giving a try, I have a MythTV setup that works for my needs.
Several of the Digital Cable Boxes on the market allow themselves to be controled via firewire, which last I heard was supported under MythTV, though not yet with the stable KnoppMyth.
I am a fan of KnoppMyth, but I don't claim that either it, or MythTV are the be all/end all, much less always the best and last word on various pvrs. What works best for me, very likely won't work best for you. For some people, perhaps a large percentage, a TiVo, or even Windows MPC may very well satisfy all your demands. I have used a DirecTiVo, FreeVo, and MythTV. Of the three I like MythTV via KnoppMyth the best.
Prices listed at mythic.tv for air2pc and hd-3000 are $172.00 (currently out of stock) and $167.50 respectively.
At pricewatch, a pvr-250 comes back with several total costs between %125 and %130. So it costs a whopping 35% more to go with an hdtv capture card than dit does a pvr-250. (pvr-350s run in the $175 per area, so approximately the same cost as a hdtv capture card.)
For those not already insisting on getting an HDTV ready 42" plasma screen, or so, you may find a simple 19" lcd pannel for $277 (tonight on pricewatch) may provide a suitable display. Or if you are really pressed, some of the old 17" CRTs out there did do 1600x1280, though as a computer display I never enjoyed that output, it should work well for HDTV even up to 1080i.
The other reason that a lot of the reviewers don't want to do all that much with hdtv is that you really do start needing to get really large hard disk storage capacity to do more than a couple of hours of capture with. Granted setting up an array of four 250 gig drives isn't that expensive, or hard, but it is extra work.
Just got to thinking, perhaps the 'DoS' attack being talked about, is not as people would initially think, bringing down the site through some network attack. Perhaps the actual notifications being sent to the advertizers about the initial article, and possibly their subsequent response, up to and including canceling their advertizing contracts with sys-con, is being considered a denial of service attack.
The logic here is that in order for sys-con to provide service, they need a positive revenue stream, which for them comes from getting paid for presents and clicks for ads. If the advertizing companies are canceling their contracts, sys-con will be unable to pay for the servers and bandwidth required to provide the service that allows them to sell ad space. i.e. it becomes a Denial of Service, where the attack is directed at the money aspect rather than the network aspect of that service.
Obviously if the advertisers are pulling or canceling their contracts, sys-con would have to negotiate new contracts either with other advertisers, or re-negotiate contracts with the advertisers who are currently pulling out. Somehow I doubt such contracts would be as lucrative as the ones they had before.
As for whining about first ammendment rights, it is his right to elect to remove a story from his servers. Just as it would be my first ammendment right as a BBS owner to delete messages I find offensive that are being posted on my BBS, or web server, or groupware server, or any other server.
Duct tape wallets lined with aluminized mylar should have the desired effect. You will probalby want to drop it into the x-ray basket as you go through airport security, but that's your decision. Besides you already know they are going to ask to see some identification there, so it sholud not be 'unexpected'.
It's the pulling you off into a dark alley to ask for your papers because they couldn't rf-scan you as you were walking down the street that will probably be the greatest pain.
There is also the 'Sticky Notes' applet for Gnome Panels. If it's in the version of Gnome you have, it will be in the 'Accessories' menu under 'Add to Panel' option.
From what I recall, HP had a varient on this. Engineers could use anything in the HP inventory to work on whatever they had in mind, and if HP chose not to turn that idea into a product, the engineer was free to do with it what ever they chose. Thus Woz created both the Apple I and Apple II from mostly off the shelf parts at HP, and was able to take the result outside of HP, and colaborate with Jobs on creating Apple.
Then again you probably remembered that just after you posted, and decided it was just outside your tollerances for variations on the idea.
Well, you could use spray adhesive. There are a couple different tackyness levels, from will peel off with little difficulty, through permanent adhesion.
If you are working with plexiglass that already has a sheet of plastic on top of it, to be removed to reveal the final surface, then even the permanent spray adhesive would not be an issue, as you would just peal it off with the surface protection plastic.
Even with that, over the long term, it would probably be more efficient to use a laser or watter jet cutting machine, and 'print' directly to the final cuts through the 4'x8' sheets.
Yea, speaking of remaking films because of the fact they didn't have the latest effects to work with, I wonder how the remake of Sin City will look in color...
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Since it was a real office, having 'virtually nothing' in it means that he imagined it to be an empty space. Reality never was allowed to intrude upon this view, so the fact he couldn't open the door to get into the office means nothing...
First up, media center. If you can put the drives together into a server (or at most two) that you can keep in a closet (remember to make sure it has good air circuilation) you can use a very small front end, such as a Haupauge MediaMVP that plugs into your TV and audio system to deal with most if not all your TV and Sound needs. I can't recomend it as a complete solution, as I am running into limitations with this, but you could alternatively use a laptop with s-video or dvi out, as well as an Audiology SB pcmcia card to work as a front end. There are even solutions that make use of an X-Box to be a front end for MythTV, which means that you would also have a DVD player you can use as needed. The upcoming Sony PS3 may provide you with the hardware you need to do most if not all of your Media Center, including being a game station if you don't like the X-Box for some reason.
For tips on how to make use of a small space for storage, start watching H&G TV, particularly Mission Organization, and This Small Space. Both should be used as 'idea' generators for how to par down, as well as re-organize your stuff to make your place feel larger than it is.
If the 6'x6' table is a family heirloom, you may want to check with family to see if someone else may get better use of it. At the same time if both of you are happy with the decision to hold onto it, pretty much ignore the other comments here. It's only 36 square feet, and should not be taking up a significant percentage of your place. You will be better off finding replacements for other furniture.
That's just my views though, and I am hardly the paragon of good use of a small space. Moved from a fully furnished and cluttered house, to a fully furnished and cluttered house, into a 1 bedroom apartment in under a year. I still have furniture I need to get rid of.
-Rusty
The fact that it is not Sponge Bob branded makes it worth the extra $110. (At least in my opinion, yours may differ.)
-Rusty
Actually, Yes. Anyone can ask for cash from anyone else, with no promise of any return, or even any claim that the person doing the asking is a charity. There is nothing illegal in that.
If the person being asked to give, decides for themselves that what is being asked is reasonable for them to give, and they choose to give some ammount in response, that's perfectly legal as well.
Granted using extortion/strong arm tactics in the asking would make that act illegal, but that does not appear to have happened here.
My own bank has set up accounts that any customer may deposit money to, and all funds that are deposited to those accounts will be delivered to the Red Cross, and the Salvation Army, (I seem to recall.) One of the reasons that they are willing to do that is that it makes handling the donations at the various charities significantly easier. Rather than having 5,000 $30, and 2,000 $250 checks that they have to account for, they get one check for the total $5,150,000 (*which the bank has to explain to the feds to preclude concerns over money laundering) and a printout of those people who wish to be acknoledged for their donations.
PayPal can be considered to be doing the 'right thing' only in that they have frozen the account of a customer that has had some suspicious activity. That freeze should have been lifted by now as the investigation would have shown that that 'suspicious activity' is reasonable for the situation.
-Rusty
Not sure entirely myself, however as a thought, having a constant twist (different from one pair to the next, but the same for the length of the cable) could set up a situation where two cables are in phase at several points alog the cable run, and some signal transfer may hapen.
Varying the twist rate along the run of a pair, as well as doing what you can to keep it out of phase with other pairs by braiding, or other means would make it possible to set up a longer cable run without viable phase transfer points that could cause signal bleed between pairs.
However that's just conjecture on my part. I am sure someone will come along who can give us the math to show that my conjecture is entirely wrong.
-Rusty
I stand corrected. Per the documentation, On battery it draws 2.5W, on AC adapter it drawss 6.2W.
As otherwise noted, Watts will not change by voltage, though current will. The brick is a 13W power source, at 5.0V. i.e. it provides about 2 amps of power, i.e. it has a loss of some 3 watts. (though some of that loss is very likely to be simply calculation error allowance.)
Nope, I didn't get a geek licence. Just happen to be one...
-Rusty
... that should be reasonably in-expensive, as well as not drawing all that much power.
Go to e-bay and pick up a Zaurus SL-5500, check price watch for a 1 gig SD card, and find a network adapter that works in your environment. (10/100 wired Hawking cf-network card, or linksys wifi cf card perhaps.)
Add Apache, to make it a web server, Samba to make it a file server. Granted it won't have a lot of storage space, but if you are just looking for something to host a small personal web site, do a bit of programing in perl or python, it may be enough.
Asside from the flash SD card, you should be able to pick up the 5500 and network adapter for under $200. 1 Gig SD cards are under $100 in my area of the states, don't know about in Germany.
The power brick draws something like 1800mw at 110v, so 900mw at 220. So, less than a watt of power to compare against the other alternatives listed. You don't have to build an entirely new system, and figure out what of it will work with Linux, (it's already running Linux) and so on.
Is it a perfect solution? Probably not. Can it work? Sure.
-Rusty
There is one serious downside to PDFs when it comes to content presentation. When viewed onscreen, 12 point type is preferable to 10 point type. However if you are going to print the document, on paper, 10 point type has several advantages over 12 point type, not the least of which is the amount of paper you end up with.
.rtf, or even .html.
.pdf files.
Once you export your document to PDF, the recipient can not make any change to the point size of the document.
As a further down side, if you are reading the document on any pda, you end up needing to scroll side to side for every line of text you read, simply because you can not dynamically re-wrap the text to fit within a screen. Granted you can get the page to be one screen wide, but in most cases this makes the text small enough that you can tell there is something on the page, but not read it.
Ok, you say, "Use pdf2txt (or something like that) to export the text. Arn't you happy now?" Nope. Now you loose all formating for fonts, any embeded graphics, etc. This makes technical documents pretty much useless again.
If you are going to publish something that you expect people to read on a wide variety of platforms, or even may be reading on a pda while waiting to go to an interview or something, it is far more useful to use
And while the above is my own view, I don't think I am alone in this. In fact this has a lot to do with why the Baen Free Library does not publish to
-Rusty
Perhaps the biggest problem with this is that the MAC of the access point will very rarely be the address that the network traffic will be sourced from. Likewise the source MAC address in packets through the AP may be in the approved address list as well.
About the only way you can really lock this down via MAC addresses is to restrict what MAC can appear on what Switch port in your network. This does require that you have managed switches.
Another thing to do would be to check the mac list in your DHCP server and compare that against the OUI list at the IEEE. You would then want to check the addresses that resolve to fairly well known AP manufacturers, (D-Link, Hawking, Linksys, etc.). Now point a web broser at those IP addresses and see which of them comes up with a login for an AP. Try the default passwords for each manufacturer's products, and if you get in, shut down the wireless side, and reset the password to something a bit more secure.
If you can't get in, then if you have managed switches, find the port the device is on, and disable it.
If you have a policy in place that only end devices are allowed on your network, i.e. no hubs, APs, etc, and you have a managed switch, you may be able to find several offending ports with multiple active MAC addresses on the port. (Cisco switche may call these either mac or cam entries) Once you eliminate known trunk or inter-switch ports, ports with multiple active addresses are likely to have an unmanaged network device attached that should not be allowed. You may be able to restrict it to the authorized mac address at the switch.
One really 'nasty' thing to do would be to authorize the MAC address for the AP, so that the user can manage it, can release and renew it's IP address with the DHCP server, etc. yet nothing that attaches to the AP would be able to connect to anything, or even get an IP address. The exception would be AP Routers that are offering their own DHCP server and NATing the traffic. Then shutting down the port would be the easiest solution.
Actually locating the AP via it's radio beacon is chancy in most buildings.
-Rusty
The fact that you are sending an encrypted email may hide what you have to say, but it doesnt hide the communication itself.
This may be true for e-mail, but would you say it is true for credit card transactions with an https server as well? Or is that communication clearly an indication that you have something to hide because it is encrypted? You must be a terrorist because you did use encryption in some communication with bn.com.
Likewise if you are using a VPN to connect to your corporate headquarters to get some work done, the fact that your communications is encrypted has nothing to do with your companies corporate security policy, it's clear that you are a terrorist attempting to hide your research and communications activities.
As an asside, how are they going to enforce such logging? Will ISPs be required to do transparent proxying for all protocols in existence to capture the specific information in the requests? If not then knowing that you communicated with a rackspace server on port 80 will not tell anyone what website you went to. So far as I know dns servers do not log dns lookups, and it would be foolhearty to start doing so. Is the reason that you are looking up an alternet.com name because you just got some spam from them and your e-mail server is checking to see if they are in the RBL or is it because the e-mail had a link embeded in such a way as to cause your e-mail client to automatically load that image, confirming that your e-mail address is correct?
Is the traffic to ther IRC server in Italy there because you now have an owned pc that is going to be spaming and participating in ddos attacks, or because you are chatting with your cousin in Rome?
Obviously all that traffic on port 666 is for people practicing their co-ordinated entry and kill tactics.
All that traffic on udp/123 is to make sure you and your buddies all have syncronized timepieces to co-ordinate your attacks.
Just because you are sending encrypted e-mail does not mean that your messages are suspect. No more than the fact that you don't just write down your bank routing and account number on a post card to pay your bills.
~Rusty
a slice of round balogna...
Compaq did, on at least two occasions. The LTE Elite series, and I think the Aero series had a trackball built into the right hand side of the screen.
Two problems cropped up regularly. It's a pain to clean. The buttons end up being on the outside of the case, subject to impact and damage. Also a lot of people did not like the size of the trackball ball. It was about half inch in diameter, with proportionatly small wheels. (The 'marbled' coloring logiteck uses hadn't been thought of yet.)
For todays laptops even this is probably too large of a device. It definately would not be installed in the screen, and for ultra thin laptops putting one to the side of the keyboard may be too much.
Such is life.
-Rusty
Possibly the easiest would be to set up a collection of winframe servers in your server farm, and attach to them as needed via rdesktop from your Linux desktops.
Then again, I have not implemented this, so your experience may differ.
-Rusty
There are instructions for how to get it running as a front end for MythTV.
M VP_LinuxHOWTO for anyone really interested.
First up is to set up a tftp server on your dhcp server. You might be able to do this with software for a Linksys 54g firewall/router, but you would probably be better off running both on a dedicated server behind your firewall, rather than on it.
On the server you will need to have available the appropriate client image for the MVP to load up. That includes pre-configuring that image with the information on how to connect to your MythTV back end. There are instructions at http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Media
Enjoy.
~Rusty
Another high school station that is primarily listener supported, and has had a streaming media presence for a couple of years now, is http://www.jazz88fm.com/
Their prime focus is Jazz music, with a very popular Bluegrass series on Saturday mornings. They have done a lot of local event coverage, including weekly episodes at various jazz venues in the Minnesota Twin Cities area.
~Rusty
There are actually two possible questions out of this, "Two shares with the same name, but are different files." and "Two sources of the same file, shared seprately."
.torrent file for it, then advertizes the .torrent file on his blog. Al, Bob, Cathy, Doris, Plauge, Faith, and Garth all decide to download a copy. Some because he is making it available on his blog, others because they saw a reference to it on hos blog, but decide to go to the source and download the ISO from there. The transactions that are using the .torrent file from Joe's blog are not going to be sharing transfer space with the transactions from the official torrent site.
.torrent file for it, put the iso and .torrent on my web server, and link to the .torrent in my blog. Heather downloads the .torrent as part of her collection of that ISO, likes the file, so she puts my .torrent on her server, linking it with a blog entry, then leaves her client sharing the .iso file. In this situation, both of us would be sharing the bandwidth of distributing the .iso.
Lets say you and I both recorded the latest Britney_Spears story on ET. We each grabbed from the first frame of the story as our recordings captured it, to the last frame of the story. It happens the there was a comercial break in the middle of the story, which we have each clipped out. However our clips are not identical, and if we are both capturing from an analog source, our actual files will be different. Even if we both share the file as 'ETBritneyInterview.mpeg2' our file hashes will be different, so there will be no collision.
Next up... Joe is a fan of Ubuntu Linux, and tracks down an ISO file for it. Puts it on his web server with a
Last up, I create an ISO for some new distribution of Linux, and create a trackerless
Hope that addresses your question.
-Rusty
Not sure what digital cable box you are using, but here is a link http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Motoro laDct2000 for setting up KnoppMyth to use a serial cable to control a MotorolaDct2000. For DirecTV try this link http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=DirecT VSetUP, or if you have the D10 receiver, have a look at http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=DtenSe rialControlScript.
Now that's not to say that any of these will work for your setup. Probably not, since you indicate you are running SageTV, which I probably will not be giving a try, I have a MythTV setup that works for my needs.
Several of the Digital Cable Boxes on the market allow themselves to be controled via firewire, which last I heard was supported under MythTV, though not yet with the stable KnoppMyth.
I am a fan of KnoppMyth, but I don't claim that either it, or MythTV are the be all/end all, much less always the best and last word on various pvrs. What works best for me, very likely won't work best for you. For some people, perhaps a large percentage, a TiVo, or even Windows MPC may very well satisfy all your demands. I have used a DirecTiVo, FreeVo, and MythTV. Of the three I like MythTV via KnoppMyth the best.
-Rusty
Prices listed at mythic.tv for air2pc and hd-3000 are $172.00 (currently out of stock) and $167.50 respectively.
At pricewatch, a pvr-250 comes back with several total costs between %125 and %130. So it costs a whopping 35% more to go with an hdtv capture card than dit does a pvr-250. (pvr-350s run in the $175 per area, so approximately the same cost as a hdtv capture card.)
For those not already insisting on getting an HDTV ready 42" plasma screen, or so, you may find a simple 19" lcd pannel for $277 (tonight on pricewatch) may provide a suitable display. Or if you are really pressed, some of the old 17" CRTs out there did do 1600x1280, though as a computer display I never enjoyed that output, it should work well for HDTV even up to 1080i.
The other reason that a lot of the reviewers don't want to do all that much with hdtv is that you really do start needing to get really large hard disk storage capacity to do more than a couple of hours of capture with. Granted setting up an array of four 250 gig drives isn't that expensive, or hard, but it is extra work.
-Rusty
Just got to thinking, perhaps the 'DoS' attack being talked about, is not as people would initially think, bringing down the site through some network attack. Perhaps the actual notifications being sent to the advertizers about the initial article, and possibly their subsequent response, up to and including canceling their advertizing contracts with sys-con, is being considered a denial of service attack.
The logic here is that in order for sys-con to provide service, they need a positive revenue stream, which for them comes from getting paid for presents and clicks for ads. If the advertizing companies are canceling their contracts, sys-con will be unable to pay for the servers and bandwidth required to provide the service that allows them to sell ad space. i.e. it becomes a Denial of Service, where the attack is directed at the money aspect rather than the network aspect of that service.
Obviously if the advertisers are pulling or canceling their contracts, sys-con would have to negotiate new contracts either with other advertisers, or re-negotiate contracts with the advertisers who are currently pulling out. Somehow I doubt such contracts would be as lucrative as the ones they had before.
As for whining about first ammendment rights, it is his right to elect to remove a story from his servers. Just as it would be my first ammendment right as a BBS owner to delete messages I find offensive that are being posted on my BBS, or web server, or groupware server, or any other server.
Perhaps MOG should look behind her couch as well.
-Rusty
Duct tape wallets lined with aluminized mylar should have the desired effect. You will probalby want to drop it into the x-ray basket as you go through airport security, but that's your decision. Besides you already know they are going to ask to see some identification there, so it sholud not be 'unexpected'.
It's the pulling you off into a dark alley to ask for your papers because they couldn't rf-scan you as you were walking down the street that will probably be the greatest pain.
-Rusty
There is also the 'Sticky Notes' applet for Gnome Panels. If it's in the version of Gnome you have, it will be in the 'Accessories' menu under 'Add to Panel' option.
Enjoy.
-Rusty
At least once, as 'Stickies' under accesories as an Applet.
And while it is not a 'Gnome' specific app, there is xpad which uses gtk extentions.
Enjoy.
-Rusty
From what I recall, HP had a varient on this. Engineers could use anything in the HP inventory to work on whatever they had in mind, and if HP chose not to turn that idea into a product, the engineer was free to do with it what ever they chose. Thus Woz created both the Apple I and Apple II from mostly off the shelf parts at HP, and was able to take the result outside of HP, and colaborate with Jobs on creating Apple.
Then again you probably remembered that just after you posted, and decided it was just outside your tollerances for variations on the idea.
-Rusty
Well, you could use spray adhesive. There are a couple different tackyness levels, from will peel off with little difficulty, through permanent adhesion.
If you are working with plexiglass that already has a sheet of plastic on top of it, to be removed to reveal the final surface, then even the permanent spray adhesive would not be an issue, as you would just peal it off with the surface protection plastic.
Even with that, over the long term, it would probably be more efficient to use a laser or watter jet cutting machine, and 'print' directly to the final cuts through the 4'x8' sheets.
-Rusty
Yea, speaking of remaking films because of the fact they didn't have the latest effects to work with, I wonder how the remake of Sin City will look in color...
(no I don't)