I don't know who to recomend to find out what of those feeds might be of interest to you.
My own big-dish experience is pretty much limited to C-band reception pre FTA equipment. For my needs a single lnb with rotation provided sufficient tunning. Rotation for v/h happened a lot faster than traversing from one sat to the next. Using 'intelegent' transponder selection also worked well until I inserted channels to be skipped. (Since all the even transponders or oriented one way, and the odd transponders the other, 'intellegent' selection walks through either even, or odd until it gets to the end of the list, then switches to the odd or even and rotates the lnb as appropriate.)
Going with a multi-head lnb, would mean that you would only be adjusting the rotation on a per sat basis. You will probably need to get extra rg-6 cable however if you are going to get multi-C and multi-ku lnbs, as you will need a feed for each lnb receiver, and in my experience the ribion cable out there consists of two rg-6 feeds, and control leads for both the rotors and the drive arms.
One other accessory you may want to look into is the lnb feed horn adapter to allow you to run your DirecTV receiver off your big dish. http://www.skyvision.com/store/mi5034007.html
I do have one, and so long as you are only looking at the one sat location, everything seems to look great. Theoretically you will get better reception, though this will depend upon how good you are at mounting everything.
Since the propagation speed of photons in fibre is on the order of 300km/s (note I am not saying it is 300 km/s, I am saying that I believe it is better than 100km/s) it seems that either 120km/h is an unidentified bitrate, or a misentered item perhaps referencing 120kb/h, or even 120kb/s, 120kb/h would become 33 and 1/3rd bits per second, which even I consider an unreasonably slow data rate.
Then again, I didn't read the article either, so perhaps it was transfered to the summary incorrectly...
Hmmm... contemplate your question, and the recomendation that the program would only be viable if some 20% of vehicles were equiped.
The people who put together the study are aware that with an exceptionaly small percentage, (presumably their test suite was less than 1% of 1% of the trafic in the area they tested) single sensor failures are going to have a large false effect on the data collected.
Hmm.. I seem to recall a recent report that states that even after they replaced the 85 year old baggage scanners, the vast majority of airports still do not pass muster with respect to stopping proscribed items from getting through security.
Lighters just became a proscribed item, and nearly half of the confiscated lighters collected were collected at secondary inspection stations after people had already gone through security.
Note that I am not saying that replacing the 85 year old baggage scanners was, or was not, a bad idea. I am saying that having done so does not seem to have solved the apparent problem. I.e. the problem is probably not the age of the baggage scanners. A counter argument may very well be that the older baggage scanners had more experience and were actually getting far more suspect stuff out of the system than their replacements have been able to with their lack of experience. Another may be that anyone doing the job for more than some period of time (10 min, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 weeks, or other increment) may become suseptible to drowsing off and missing things. I don't know what the actual causes of missing these things is, but it would not surprise me at all if one of the resuts (at least in some cases) isn't just giving the screeners a poor performance review, or bawling out the screeners for the perception that they are not doing their job. The correct action should be to determine why the screeners have not improved to a satisfactory level, and address the 'why' rather than yell about the effect.
Well, they did the 'shut down all commercial businesses and transportation' part. Shutting down comercial transportation functionally shuts down enough business to have effectivly shut down all commercial businesses as well. Yes people still went to work, but not all of them were able to do their jobs. Try shipping a package next day FedEx or Express Mail when FedEx can't fly.
The millions of miles of razor wire arn't needed when you have to show your state id card to travle by air. Even if no one knows what 'law' requires that.
You will see them in standard (what is it, 1 1/2"?) socket bulbs within the next year or so. That won't mean they will be cheap. In all likelyhood the screw in portion will be a transformer that will drop the voltage to a level that is suitable for the LED array.
Possibly an array will be set up so that rows are in series, and columns are parallel. Though you may see flicker with that method as well.
Most of the 'fix' in both the florescent bulb and the hallogen bulb solutions came about from similar systems, so most of the ground work is done. It's just a new implementation.
My personal gripe with the compact florescents is that they do not match up dimension wise (outside of the socket itself) well with other bulbs. I have harps on table lamps that don't work well with them, as well as shades with wire spring clamps that are supposed to mount on the bulb, that are a pain to use as well.
The short course is that (at least in music) while the copyright for the creator, (songwriter, musician, etc.) may expire, the publisher continues to have 'common law copyright' on anything produced pre 1972. With the extension of copyright currently to between 75 and 95 years, it's going to be 2067 before anything music wise goes into the public domain, by copyright expiration, again. (Longer if Disney decides that Mickey might get in the public domain too early, in say 2020 or so...) Expect to see similar effects in software, games, and other media shortly unless the supreme court shoots the ruling down.
Not speaking as a professional programer, but throwing the ideas out.
A code sample would very rarely consist of an entire functional program, or need to provide a window into the IP of a company.
It may consist of a function that was re-written in the code base. Or it might be a subroutine with comments indicating what this subroutine does, what parameters it may require, and what it returns. It may also consist of a set of requirements, so that a prospective employer can determine if you can program to the requirements.
I would be very surprised if any developer has not worked on some project that snippets of code they developed would not be available for outside review. Projects that were canceled or never went into production would be prime candidates for places to look. Granted even those generate functions that developers re-use in other projects that are completed, but they are a place to look.
Neither the $1, nor the $2 bills are being redesigned.
My own understanding is that the $2 is so little used in circulation that it is under too much scrutiny for being a counterfit already. No self respecting, or even self aware counterfiter would create or use one.
As most counterfiters are going to be using bills with duplicate serial numbers, it would be too easy to catch a bunch of $1s with the same serial number.
So far as I know, neither the $1, nor the $2 have security threads from the 1995 updates. Also the $5 does not have the color changing ink that the $10 and larger denominations have.
Stop at any bank near a federal reserve center, and ask for a new bundle of $1s. They come in lots of 50, so it will cost you $50 to get one. These bundles are likely to have sequential numbers. Great gifts for family members around Christmas or birthdays if you happen to like giving away that much money.
Actually I would not use this to capture video at all.
The goal of the Home Theatre PC next to the TV is to provide as little interference with watching what you have recorded as possible.
As has been mentioned before, this board provides a small form factor device that by design does not require a large number of loud fans to keep quiet.
Capturing video, whether by a card that does the mpeg encoding in hardware, or through the cpu, tends to generate quite a bit of heat that needs to be removed from the system in some way. At the moment the most efficient mechanism for doing that is cooling fans, which tend to generate noise.
Likewise adding a hard drive to this system is likely to add both a source of noise, and an additional source of heat that needs to be removed. You may be able to reduce both via various supported control of some hard drives. However doing that will often reduce the opportunity for recording raw video if you are not using hardware compression in some way.
Lastly with regards to recording, a quick search hear on slashdot will reveal that Plextor has released the souce code for their USB capture devices, or at least a subst of them. Even donated a device to the lead developer for MythTV.
Now with regards to incompatibilities between binary drivers for the decoder on this system, and other drivers for sound cards, etc. Unless you plan on using that PCI slot for a sound card, instead of for either a superior video output device (to the embeded video card) or the afformentioned capture card, it is not at all unlikely that the same people who make available the decoder binaries, will be more than happy to throw in binaries for the rest of the hardware on that motherboard. Presumably they have some idea of what works with what.
The place where binary only drivers will cause a problem is when it comes time to update the kernel on a device using a binary only driver. For people like me, who likes to use the full rev of KnoppMyth, I don't see this as a significant issue. Granted that may be conciet or ignorance on my part.
Whether the MPEG2/4 decoding hardware drivers are open source or not is only relevent for people who insist upon compiling everything themselves. If that includes you, I can't answer your question.
I am aware that KnoppMyth has supported this hardware for playback. Again whether it is an out of the box install and run situation I can't comment on, I don't have one, so I have not tested it. You are welcome to check over at and persue the forums to see if your question is addressed.
MythTV recomends a 450mhz processor, this one is 1300 mhz (or there abouts.) Now that does not mean that there may not be other problems. My own personal experience with via dma drivers is that they do not support sustained data transfer worth the purcase of any via product. That would honestly be my concern, not whether there are drivers for the MPEG2/4, or whether Processor speed is sufficent.
Granted I would expect to be using this as a driveless front end myself, which might eliviate the problem. Then again...
As a follow on to that, while I did/do have media on my BeOS R5 box, about the time that I got the box, Apple Quicktime 5 came out using the Sorensen codex. As a result, the Quicktime media that was available was all being converted to Sorensen (son?) and the codex was not available for BeOS. On top of this, the only video you could play on the cube toy was quicktime (obviously qt4 and earlier.)
In short, while it was possible to get several videos running on the demo cube, I never personally did so.
the Terminal app was in 4.5 and 5 that I know of, I don't have personal experience of anything before that.
When you ask about 'full shell functionality', I need to know what you mean. Bash was the default terminal shell under both 4.5 and 5. I believe csh was available, and if you wanted to build your own interpreter there was nothing preventing you other than possibly experience on your part.
I know that I was using aliases, nested shells, most of the scripting options, etc. Beyond that I don't know that I can address your question.
Well, let's see, cruising speed (from the parent of the parent) is 940 Km/Hr. So we need a device to convert an airplane's speed from 0 to just over 260 meters per sec. The approximate of acceleration due to gravity, here on earth, is 10 meters/sec/sec. So to go from 0 m/s to 10 m/s, at 10 m/s/s would take one second, to get to 260 m/s would take approximately 26 seconds.
I know, you're concerned that 1 gravity might be a bit much to ask of the equipment in question. So let's look at a 1 m/s/s system, and work things out for that. Hmm, looks like it would take 260 seconds.
So, to get the distance it takes to travel during that acceleration, we use the function d=1/2 a * t^2, or for 10 m/s over 1 second, we get 5 meters. d=.5*10*26^2 ==> d=3380 meters (~2 miles) d=.5*1*260^2 ==> d=33800 meters (~34 Kilometers)
For those who are thinking that both seem long, aircraft today do not use the runway to get to cruising speed, they use it to get to takeoff speed. 270 - 345 km/h, or 75-95 m/s (I'll let you do the math, equations are extractable from above, you can even figure out acceleration when you realize that the take-off run is 3231m at max. take-off weight. As an off the cuff estimate I would suspect that it's about.3 g)
I will also leave it as an exercise to the reader to contemplate what the energy requirements are, Note that the two GE90-94b engines on some 777s are rated at 432.8 kN.
Oddly enough, the Visa card in question was a date expired card, i.e. Costco accepted a card past it's expiration date, and ignored Visa's decline to accept for the transaction, forcing it through anyway.
I personally have never tried this, and suspect that most of the businesses I have dealt with would not have allowed the transaction. I may be wrong, but in my mind attempting it is fraud anyway.
Also if you read the journal entry again, Visa had called him first, though the number he tried to call back strangely went to a cell phone from the recording he got. Visa needs to check that out to figure out why their trunk numbers are going to a cell phone, but they did attempt to notify him first.
To make it more fun, use a key pad with digital numbers that change location every alarm event as well. No looking at the number, typing an 8 digit sequence, then rolling over and geting a few more hours of sleep.
To make it even more interesting, change the values under the keypad after every keypad press as well. (including missed entries.)
To make it infuriating, change the number being displayed and force the user to remember where in the number they are, so that it isn't a glance at the number, enter it's changing varient into the keypad.
Hmm, let me see, I pick the tablet out of it's charging station as I head out the door to work in the morning. It's fully charged. I won't be using it while I am driving, though I may use it to do some e-book reading, or possibly a bit of scribling while on the bus. Then again perhaps not, it will take a couple minutes to come out of hybernate mode, only to be put back in hibernate, or suspend as I am getting off the bus, and walking to my cube.
I drop it in the charging base/expansion ports at the desk, and log into the network, sync up my e-mail, discover my first meeting got bumped up 30 min, so I grab the system out of the dock and head to my first meeting.
Meeting to meeting in the morning, but time for a few minutes in the charger just before lunch. So I respond to a few e-mails, declining a couple of meetings that I really won't be able to make, etc. I get a bit of a power boost as a result of that half hour or so, and grab and go to my first afternoon meeting.
Around 4:30 my battery starts flashing red, letting me know I have about an hour of life left in it, so after the last meeting I get my system back into the docking station to clean things up for the day, grab what paperwork I might need for the night, suspend the system (which I have been doing between meetings) catch the bus home.
5:30, home. It's time for dinner, so I take the tablet and drop it in the charging station at home. I really don't have any interest in dropping food on the screen, or anything like that.
After dinner I spend a couple of hours getting caught up with work while the kids are watching a sitcom or two, then put the system in hybernate as I send the kids to bed, and the wife and I cuddle up to watch our shows, and go to bed ourselves. System sit's effectively off, and charging overnight, (about 8 hours, give or take depending on how much we liked the show, and how soon we headed to bed.)
Wake up, and we are back to the begining.
Note that the 5:15 of charging time is not a problem. It does charge some while in the docking stations, but we are not talking ni-cads here, and it does get a full charge every night. (Well except for the nights you are using it to look at pr0n because you don't have a wife or kids. Try not to get the screen too sticky.)
Let's see, there's GTKatalog, and I suspect that there are several others for Linux, though all I did was search for catalog in description, and that's the only CD related app I found. (Lot's of other apps)
Can't recommend, or condem it as I have not used it.
Remember however, that it is the lifetime of the unit, not your lifetime. If it dies, you sell it, or TiVo decides to EOL the hardware, you get to pony up another lifetime subscription for your next device.
With the PVR-350, and KnoppMyth, I think the recomendation is to use an 800 mhz processor, but you can find out more at
Following the FAQ on the left it appears that people have made a 450 mhz processor work with a PVR-350, but he doesn't consider it an out of the box 'just works' solution.
This doesn't mean that you couldn't build your own platform from the ground up with some other distirbution. However for 'ease of build' I strongly recomend KnoppMyth. That is at the very least based upon my own experience in building my first PVR.
I would say that the primary difference between going with a PVR-250 and a PVR-350 is that you will not need a video card that can output to a TV if you use the 350. If you already have a video card that can output to your TV, or you plan on sending the output to something other than a TV or device that accepts s-video in, then the 350 doesn't provide you with a significant advantage over the 250.
Best bet is to follow the various links, and search for FAQ's, One of them is bound to have the following:
2. I tried to install Asterisk@Home on my XXXX pc and it says it don't support my system.
Asterisk at Home is based on RHEL 3 Linux. RHEL 3 does not support many older systems. You should have at least a 300MHz PII. This may have been an oversight on my part but most of the info I have read on Asterisk says it does not run well on systems slower than this. Besides look on e-bay a Dell Optiplex GX1, a great Linux and Asterisk box with good hardware support, sells for $34USD (buy it now)! Seems like a worthwhile investment for Asterisk/Linux experimentation.
If you really want to use Asterisk on slower hardware try Debian Linux it runs on almost anything and has good Asterisk support.
The 'buy it now' price varies, and depends a lot on the processor speed, plus you may want to bump up the memory. That 'buy it now' price does not include shipping, so you may want to factor that in as well.
However I do see quite a few of the Dell Optiplex GX1 systems for under $100, including shipping, and if you are going to pick up the fxs card at the same time, and are not too picky about which Optiplex you get, you might be able to get everything necessary for under $100 including shipping.
Since I have better than that hardware sitting in storage at the moment, I might just do this in the next month.
One difference is thta TW is providing you with what they are willing to claim is an electrician.
Whether the guys down at All Systems, or Collisys would agree is a completely seprate matter.
Currently I am appaled at Vonage's service suspension policies, but that's my own business at the moment.
-Rusty
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And even saying PRI uses 23 channels for voice and 1 for call setup/teardown is specific to a single PRI T1.
The spec for PRI allows that one channel for call setup/teardown to handle as many as 20 PRI spans. After the first PRI (which is shorted the control channel) each of the remaining 19 PRI T1 circuits can use all 24 channels for voice or whatever service you configure them for with your provider.
In other words if you can afford the expenditure, you can do variable bandwidth connections across 1 x 23 x 64 + 19 x 24 x 64 ~= 30Mbps with variation down to 1 channel or 0 if you and your remote end have some other method of signalling to activate from 0 channels (i.e. your isp sends you a reverse call request via the data channel.)
Note, while this is an option, I have never actually seen it implemented. I have seen multiple PRIs in use, we use it as a dial backup mechanism to maintain connectivity with branches at times, however our PRI's are all 1D23B setups. I wasn't involved in the design, I just use the stupid things at times.
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... off the skyvision link above, gives you the table at http://skyvision.com/pages/information_center/fta_ mpeg2_no_am_east.html as well as another table at http://skyvision.com/pages/information_center/fta_ mpeg2_no_am_west.html which list what is available on FTA, as well as whether you can just use a C band lnb, or if you need a ku band lnb as well.
I don't know who to recomend to find out what of those feeds might be of interest to you.
My own big-dish experience is pretty much limited to C-band reception pre FTA equipment. For my needs a single lnb with rotation provided sufficient tunning. Rotation for v/h happened a lot faster than traversing from one sat to the next. Using 'intelegent' transponder selection also worked well until I inserted channels to be skipped. (Since all the even transponders or oriented one way, and the odd transponders the other, 'intellegent' selection walks through either even, or odd until it gets to the end of the list, then switches to the odd or even and rotates the lnb as appropriate.)
Going with a multi-head lnb, would mean that you would only be adjusting the rotation on a per sat basis. You will probably need to get extra rg-6 cable however if you are going to get multi-C and multi-ku lnbs, as you will need a feed for each lnb receiver, and in my experience the ribion cable out there consists of two rg-6 feeds, and control leads for both the rotors and the drive arms.
One other accessory you may want to look into is the lnb feed horn adapter to allow you to run your DirecTV receiver off your big dish. http://www.skyvision.com/store/mi5034007.html
I do have one, and so long as you are only looking at the one sat location, everything seems to look great. Theoretically you will get better reception, though this will depend upon how good you are at mounting everything.
~Rusty
Since the propagation speed of photons in fibre is on the order of 300km/s (note I am not saying it is 300 km/s, I am saying that I believe it is better than 100km/s) it seems that either 120km/h is an unidentified bitrate, or a misentered item perhaps referencing 120kb/h, or even 120kb/s, 120kb/h would become 33 and 1/3rd bits per second, which even I consider an unreasonably slow data rate.
Then again, I didn't read the article either, so perhaps it was transfered to the summary incorrectly...
~Rusty
Hmmm... contemplate your question, and the recomendation that the program would only be viable if some 20% of vehicles were equiped.
The people who put together the study are aware that with an exceptionaly small percentage, (presumably their test suite was less than 1% of 1% of the trafic in the area they tested) single sensor failures are going to have a large false effect on the data collected.
-Rusty
Hmm.. I seem to recall a recent report that states that even after they replaced the 85 year old baggage scanners, the vast majority of airports still do not pass muster with respect to stopping proscribed items from getting through security.
Lighters just became a proscribed item, and nearly half of the confiscated lighters collected were collected at secondary inspection stations after people had already gone through security.
Note that I am not saying that replacing the 85 year old baggage scanners was, or was not, a bad idea. I am saying that having done so does not seem to have solved the apparent problem. I.e. the problem is probably not the age of the baggage scanners. A counter argument may very well be that the older baggage scanners had more experience and were actually getting far more suspect stuff out of the system than their replacements have been able to with their lack of experience. Another may be that anyone doing the job for more than some period of time (10 min, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 weeks, or other increment) may become suseptible to drowsing off and missing things. I don't know what the actual causes of missing these things is, but it would not surprise me at all if one of the resuts (at least in some cases) isn't just giving the screeners a poor performance review, or bawling out the screeners for the perception that they are not doing their job. The correct action should be to determine why the screeners have not improved to a satisfactory level, and address the 'why' rather than yell about the effect.
-Rusty
Well, they did the 'shut down all commercial businesses and transportation' part. Shutting down comercial transportation functionally shuts down enough business to have effectivly shut down all commercial businesses as well. Yes people still went to work, but not all of them were able to do their jobs. Try shipping a package next day FedEx or Express Mail when FedEx can't fly.
The millions of miles of razor wire arn't needed when you have to show your state id card to travle by air. Even if no one knows what 'law' requires that.
-Rusty
You will see them in standard (what is it, 1 1/2"?) socket bulbs within the next year or so. That won't mean they will be cheap. In all likelyhood the screw in portion will be a transformer that will drop the voltage to a level that is suitable for the LED array.
Possibly an array will be set up so that rows are in series, and columns are parallel. Though you may see flicker with that method as well.
Most of the 'fix' in both the florescent bulb and the hallogen bulb solutions came about from similar systems, so most of the ground work is done. It's just a new implementation.
My personal gripe with the compact florescents is that they do not match up dimension wise (outside of the socket itself) well with other bulbs. I have harps on table lamps that don't work well with them, as well as shades with wire spring clamps that are supposed to mount on the bulb, that are a pain to use as well.
Then again that's just my own experience.
-Rusty
Not that the public domain will exist in 5 years.
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What do you mean '5 years', have a look http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050412
The short course is that (at least in music) while the copyright for the creator, (songwriter, musician, etc.) may expire, the publisher continues to have 'common law copyright' on anything produced pre 1972. With the extension of copyright currently to between 75 and 95 years, it's going to be 2067 before anything music wise goes into the public domain, by copyright expiration, again. (Longer if Disney decides that Mickey might get in the public domain too early, in say 2020 or so...) Expect to see similar effects in software, games, and other media shortly unless the supreme court shoots the ruling down.
-Rusty
Not speaking as a professional programer, but throwing the ideas out.
A code sample would very rarely consist of an entire functional program, or need to provide a window into the IP of a company.
It may consist of a function that was re-written in the code base. Or it might be a subroutine with comments indicating what this subroutine does, what parameters it may require, and what it returns. It may also consist of a set of requirements, so that a prospective employer can determine if you can program to the requirements.
I would be very surprised if any developer has not worked on some project that snippets of code they developed would not be available for outside review. Projects that were canceled or never went into production would be prime candidates for places to look. Granted even those generate functions that developers re-use in other projects that are completed, but they are a place to look.
-Rusty
And how does that apply to either the Susan B, or Sacagawea 'Dollar' coins?
Both have the value of 100 cents. Though perhaps you are unable to read the printing on the coin itself indicating it has a value of a dollar?
-Rusty
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Neither the $1, nor the $2 bills are being redesigned.
My own understanding is that the $2 is so little used in circulation that it is under too much scrutiny for being a counterfit already. No self respecting, or even self aware counterfiter would create or use one.
As most counterfiters are going to be using bills with duplicate serial numbers, it would be too easy to catch a bunch of $1s with the same serial number.
So far as I know, neither the $1, nor the $2 have security threads from the 1995 updates. Also the $5 does not have the color changing ink that the $10 and larger denominations have.
-Rusty
Stop at any bank near a federal reserve center, and ask for a new bundle of $1s. They come in lots of 50, so it will cost you $50 to get one. These bundles are likely to have sequential numbers. Great gifts for family members around Christmas or birthdays if you happen to like giving away that much money.
-Rusty
Actually I would not use this to capture video at all.
The goal of the Home Theatre PC next to the TV is to provide as little interference with watching what you have recorded as possible.
As has been mentioned before, this board provides a small form factor device that by design does not require a large number of loud fans to keep quiet.
Capturing video, whether by a card that does the mpeg encoding in hardware, or through the cpu, tends to generate quite a bit of heat that needs to be removed from the system in some way. At the moment the most efficient mechanism for doing that is cooling fans, which tend to generate noise.
Likewise adding a hard drive to this system is likely to add both a source of noise, and an additional source of heat that needs to be removed. You may be able to reduce both via various supported control of some hard drives. However doing that will often reduce the opportunity for recording raw video if you are not using hardware compression in some way.
Lastly with regards to recording, a quick search hear on slashdot will reveal that Plextor has released the souce code for their USB capture devices, or at least a subst of them. Even donated a device to the lead developer for MythTV.
Now with regards to incompatibilities between binary drivers for the decoder on this system, and other drivers for sound cards, etc. Unless you plan on using that PCI slot for a sound card, instead of for either a superior video output device (to the embeded video card) or the afformentioned capture card, it is not at all unlikely that the same people who make available the decoder binaries, will be more than happy to throw in binaries for the rest of the hardware on that motherboard. Presumably they have some idea of what works with what.
The place where binary only drivers will cause a problem is when it comes time to update the kernel on a device using a binary only driver. For people like me, who likes to use the full rev of KnoppMyth, I don't see this as a significant issue. Granted that may be conciet or ignorance on my part.
~Rusty
Whether the MPEG2/4 decoding hardware drivers are open source or not is only relevent for people who insist upon compiling everything themselves. If that includes you, I can't answer your question.
I am aware that KnoppMyth has supported this hardware for playback. Again whether it is an out of the box install and run situation I can't comment on, I don't have one, so I have not tested it. You are welcome to check over at and persue the forums to see if your question is addressed.
MythTV recomends a 450mhz processor, this one is 1300 mhz (or there abouts.) Now that does not mean that there may not be other problems. My own personal experience with via dma drivers is that they do not support sustained data transfer worth the purcase of any via product. That would honestly be my concern, not whether there are drivers for the MPEG2/4, or whether Processor speed is sufficent.
Granted I would expect to be using this as a driveless front end myself, which might eliviate the problem. Then again...
~Rusty
As a follow on to that, while I did/do have media on my BeOS R5 box, about the time that I got the box, Apple Quicktime 5 came out using the Sorensen codex. As a result, the Quicktime media that was available was all being converted to Sorensen (son?) and the codex was not available for BeOS. On top of this, the only video you could play on the cube toy was quicktime (obviously qt4 and earlier.)
In short, while it was possible to get several videos running on the demo cube, I never personally did so.
~Rusty
the Terminal app was in 4.5 and 5 that I know of, I don't have personal experience of anything before that.
When you ask about 'full shell functionality', I need to know what you mean. Bash was the default terminal shell under both 4.5 and 5. I believe csh was available, and if you wanted to build your own interpreter there was nothing preventing you other than possibly experience on your part.
I know that I was using aliases, nested shells, most of the scripting options, etc. Beyond that I don't know that I can address your question.
~Rusty
Well, let's see, cruising speed (from the parent of the parent) is 940 Km/Hr. So we need a device to convert an airplane's speed from 0 to just over 260 meters per sec. The approximate of acceleration due to gravity, here on earth, is 10 meters/sec/sec. So to go from 0 m/s to 10 m/s, at 10 m/s/s would take one second, to get to 260 m/s would take approximately 26 seconds.
.5*10*26^2 ==> d=3380 meters (~2 miles) .5*1*260^2 ==> d=33800 meters (~34 Kilometers)
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I know, you're concerned that 1 gravity might be a bit much to ask of the equipment in question. So let's look at a 1 m/s/s system, and work things out for that. Hmm, looks like it would take 260 seconds.
So, to get the distance it takes to travel during that acceleration, we use the function d=1/2 a * t^2, or for 10 m/s over 1 second, we get 5 meters. d=
d=
For those who are thinking that both seem long, aircraft today do not use the runway to get to cruising speed, they use it to get to takeoff speed. 270 - 345 km/h, or 75-95 m/s (I'll let you do the math, equations are extractable from above, you can even figure out acceleration when you realize that the take-off run is 3231m at max. take-off weight. As an off the cuff estimate I would suspect that it's about
I will also leave it as an exercise to the reader to contemplate what the energy requirements are, Note that the two GE90-94b engines on some 777s are rated at 432.8 kN.
~Rusty
Oddly enough, the Visa card in question was a date expired card, i.e. Costco accepted a card past it's expiration date, and ignored Visa's decline to accept for the transaction, forcing it through anyway.
I personally have never tried this, and suspect that most of the businesses I have dealt with would not have allowed the transaction. I may be wrong, but in my mind attempting it is fraud anyway.
Also if you read the journal entry again, Visa had called him first, though the number he tried to call back strangely went to a cell phone from the recording he got. Visa needs to check that out to figure out why their trunk numbers are going to a cell phone, but they did attempt to notify him first.
~Rusty
To make it more fun, use a key pad with digital numbers that change location every alarm event as well. No looking at the number, typing an 8 digit sequence, then rolling over and geting a few more hours of sleep.
To make it even more interesting, change the values under the keypad after every keypad press as well. (including missed entries.)
To make it infuriating, change the number being displayed and force the user to remember where in the number they are, so that it isn't a glance at the number, enter it's changing varient into the keypad.
~rusty
Hmm, let me see, I pick the tablet out of it's charging station as I head out the door to work in the morning. It's fully charged. I won't be using it while I am driving, though I may use it to do some e-book reading, or possibly a bit of scribling while on the bus. Then again perhaps not, it will take a couple minutes to come out of hybernate mode, only to be put back in hibernate, or suspend as I am getting off the bus, and walking to my cube.
I drop it in the charging base/expansion ports at the desk, and log into the network, sync up my e-mail, discover my first meeting got bumped up 30 min, so I grab the system out of the dock and head to my first meeting.
Meeting to meeting in the morning, but time for a few minutes in the charger just before lunch. So I respond to a few e-mails, declining a couple of meetings that I really won't be able to make, etc. I get a bit of a power boost as a result of that half hour or so, and grab and go to my first afternoon meeting.
Around 4:30 my battery starts flashing red, letting me know I have about an hour of life left in it, so after the last meeting I get my system back into the docking station to clean things up for the day, grab what paperwork I might need for the night, suspend the system (which I have been doing between meetings) catch the bus home.
5:30, home. It's time for dinner, so I take the tablet and drop it in the charging station at home. I really don't have any interest in dropping food on the screen, or anything like that.
After dinner I spend a couple of hours getting caught up with work while the kids are watching a sitcom or two, then put the system in hybernate as I send the kids to bed, and the wife and I cuddle up to watch our shows, and go to bed ourselves. System sit's effectively off, and charging overnight, (about 8 hours, give or take depending on how much we liked the show, and how soon we headed to bed.)
Wake up, and we are back to the begining.
Note that the 5:15 of charging time is not a problem. It does charge some while in the docking stations, but we are not talking ni-cads here, and it does get a full charge every night. (Well except for the nights you are using it to look at pr0n because you don't have a wife or kids. Try not to get the screen too sticky.)
~Rusty
Let's see, there's GTKatalog, and I suspect that there are several others for Linux, though all I did was search for catalog in description, and that's the only CD related app I found. (Lot's of other apps)
Can't recommend, or condem it as I have not used it.
Good luck.
~Rusty
Remember however, that it is the lifetime of the unit, not your lifetime. If it dies, you sell it, or TiVo decides to EOL the hardware, you get to pony up another lifetime subscription for your next device.
Works for many people however.
With the PVR-350, and KnoppMyth, I think the recomendation is to use an 800 mhz processor, but you can find out more at
Following the FAQ on the left it appears that people have made a 450 mhz processor work with a PVR-350, but he doesn't consider it an out of the box 'just works' solution.
This doesn't mean that you couldn't build your own platform from the ground up with some other distirbution. However for 'ease of build' I strongly recomend KnoppMyth. That is at the very least based upon my own experience in building my first PVR.
I would say that the primary difference between going with a PVR-250 and a PVR-350 is that you will not need a video card that can output to a TV if you use the 350. If you already have a video card that can output to your TV, or you plan on sending the output to something other than a TV or device that accepts s-video in, then the 350 doesn't provide you with a significant advantage over the 250.
But thats just an opinion.
-Rusty
Best bet is to follow the various links, and search for FAQ's, One of them is bound to have the following:
2. I tried to install Asterisk@Home on my XXXX pc and it says it don't support my system.
Asterisk at Home is based on RHEL 3 Linux. RHEL 3 does not support many older systems. You should have at least a 300MHz PII. This may have been an oversight on my part but most of the info I have read on Asterisk says it does not run well on systems slower than this. Besides look on e-bay a Dell Optiplex GX1, a great Linux and Asterisk box with good hardware support, sells for $34USD (buy it now)! Seems like a worthwhile investment for Asterisk/Linux experimentation.
If you really want to use Asterisk on slower hardware try Debian Linux it runs on almost anything and has good Asterisk support.
The 'buy it now' price varies, and depends a lot on the processor speed, plus you may want to bump up the memory. That 'buy it now' price does not include shipping, so you may want to factor that in as well.
However I do see quite a few of the Dell Optiplex GX1 systems for under $100, including shipping, and if you are going to pick up the fxs card at the same time, and are not too picky about which Optiplex you get, you might be able to get everything necessary for under $100 including shipping.
Since I have better than that hardware sitting in storage at the moment, I might just do this in the next month.
Later...
-Rusty
One difference is thta TW is providing you with what they are willing to claim is an electrician.
Whether the guys down at All Systems, or Collisys would agree is a completely seprate matter.
Currently I am appaled at Vonage's service suspension policies, but that's my own business at the moment.
-Rusty
And even saying PRI uses 23 channels for voice and 1 for call setup/teardown is specific to a single PRI T1.
The spec for PRI allows that one channel for call setup/teardown to handle as many as 20 PRI spans. After the first PRI (which is shorted the control channel) each of the remaining 19 PRI T1 circuits can use all 24 channels for voice or whatever service you configure them for with your provider.
In other words if you can afford the expenditure, you can do variable bandwidth connections across 1 x 23 x 64 + 19 x 24 x 64 ~= 30Mbps with variation down to 1 channel or 0 if you and your remote end have some other method of signalling to activate from 0 channels (i.e. your isp sends you a reverse call request via the data channel.)
Note, while this is an option, I have never actually seen it implemented. I have seen multiple PRIs in use, we use it as a dial backup mechanism to maintain connectivity with branches at times, however our PRI's are all 1D23B setups. I wasn't involved in the design, I just use the stupid things at times.
-Rusty