I really did get a kick out of some of these responses. I sell data protection products for a living and 20TB is what I would consider an average small/medium customer. Every business these days has tens of terabytes of data. Of course they all need to backup their data, so there is nothing novel here. We have plenty of customers backing up hundreds of petabytes of data. Every dataset just needs a plan for backup, pretty simple.
The way I see it, this guy has a few options. One option is to just get more disk and make redundant a redundant copy. This would have have saved him in this case of the mistakenly erased raid, depending on how smart his sync script is. But a redundant copy is not a valid genuine backup plan. So many types of failures will show the holes of the dumb redundant copy.
The other option for a home user who's not looking to spend a bunch of money, is LTO6. They hold a sufficiently large amount of data, so only a handful of tapes will be needed. LTO6 drives are cheap enough, they won't break the bank. Since the data is on tape, you can shuttle the tapes to an off site location. Seems pretty simple.
never thought about that. i don't post as much as i used to but i do read slashdot multiple times a day, every day. so i'm probably not going to sell it but i would trade it for a copy of CS3.
Every TGI Fridays around here has those Trvia Game clickers for people who want to sit at the bar and play trivia and drink beer. Darn things seem to work pretty good, reliable and they can't be that expensive since they usually have dozens of them. They have a charging station for them at the back of the bar and it takes about 10 seconds to grab one and register with the system.
I can't imagine it would be too hard to adapt these for the purpose. You might start by tracking down the OEM for those little boxes.
The premise of using home schooling to reduce the state's cost of fueling the school buses is absurd. To do that would mean an all or nothing proposition. If you've got 50 kids on a school bus and 45 decide to opt for home schooling, you still have to get those 5 and take them to and from school. Depending on how many stops were actually able to be skipped, my guess is that the fuel savings is minimal.
Reason for kids not being able to be schooled at home are endless. Biggest one being THERE IS NO ONE THERE TO SUPERVISE THEM.
I don't know where you came from, but where I came from, kid's parents worked to put food on the table.
The victim must be a moron himself. I just hacked into 127.0.0.1 myself and the guy's system is still vulnerable. Un-freaking-believable. You would think that after a huge slashdot story about how moronic this guy was, he would fix his system. What an idiot!
Well I have my doubts that the Exchange Global Address book has ever worked. It just flat out does not work. It's never worked for me and I know my configuration is set properly. Exchange support for mail is intermittent as well. Some days connecting to Exchange just stops working - app locks up and I have to go to a command line and kill it. Let's see,... what else - responding to meeting requests from Outlook senders doesn't seem to work right as well. There's no way to schedule a meeting with other exchange users since the global address book doesn't work. Matter of fact, I just checked my Evolution app and Exchange calendar support has stopped working all together. Trying to check the box next to my calendar on the Exchange server causes the checkmark to immediately uncheck itself for some unknown reason. The WebDAV calendar support also does not work worth a damn either. My WebDAV enabled calendar doesn't seem to want to work - at least Sunbird does this right, and yes I do know how to configure a WebDAV enabled calendar. Crappy experiences as well with the LDAP support. Sometimes address lookups on my LDAP server just flake out, while pine is able to do lookups on LDAP just fine - ALWAYS.
All I'm saying is, this app has a *long*, *long* way to go before it is usable on Linux so wtf are they porting it to Windows?
This is about the funniest post I've seen, considering that evolution still doesn't work worth a damn on Linux. I have Fedora Core 3 and the Evolution program is flaky at best. The native exchange connector stability is laughable and if the program can run for more than a little while without crashing, then it's a big surprise.
This look familiar:
The Application "evolution-alarm-notify" has quit unexpectedly.
You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it. Or you can restart the application right now.
It does to me, because this is what I see everytime I start evolution. This also means none of the calendar notifications work. You also need a whole lot of motivation to get the bug report submitted, since it is so dang complicated.
All in all, what I would call a mess. The good news is the Windows guys will be able to experience this mess on their platform soon. Then again, they are used to crashing and unstable apps.
I record the Jim Rome radio show from my streaming server at home every day on my work PC. I've done this for over 4 months and never missed a momment of the show.
I can't believe there are not more rockem sockem robot posts on this thread. This toy was the best. What kid would not have endless hours of fun, trying to "knock his buddies block off". Freaking classic! I loved this thing.... Matter of fact, I'm 35 years old and I am seriously considering swinging thru the Toys-R-Us on the way home and calling up some buddies who think they can knock my block off.
This copy and paste behavoir in X windows annoys me to no end too. It is a major pain sometimes and this is one thing I wish Unix/Linux/X-Windows would copy from the windows environment. I just wanted to make sure the rest of the world knew it.
People who have a solid handle a real spam solution will realize that there truly is only one thing that will significantly lower spam in your inbox.
When People Stop Responding To spam
That is to say, as long as people respond to spam and make it profitable for spammers to send spam, spam will continue to proliferate. No amount of changes to protocol, laws, secret codes, filters or anything else will significantly lower spam at all. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being a little optimistic.
I've had 3 Xboxes, all modded. First with mod chips and then with the chipless mods. I've never copied a game or even backed up a legit game. So, yes there are people who want to mod their console and have no intention on Pirating games. Scoot over and make room in that caddy for me.
Someone please mod this clown down as a troll. He obviously has never tried this and has no clue what he is talking about. X windows displaying a full screen moving TV picture over a broadband connection? Yeah, I'd like to see him try that.
Nothing about my post is BS have about 15 Linux boxes at home and everything else I have said is true. Not all boxes are decidcated to MPEG and recording though. Don't believe me, check the archives for dvdauthor, mjpegusers or any number of other lists. And yes I do have 6 Sony BAT-55 receivers, got them from Jewelry*Princess on E-Bay. She'll sell you some too, she has a bunch of them at $150 a pop. And no my satellite bill is not $5760 per year. Check directv.com, basic service is like $39 a month for a single receiver and each additional is $5 a month. 3 of my receivers are are used to power my video wall which is a 42 inch plasmsa and two 20.1 inch Dell LCD, I'd send you the link to the pictures if you weren't such an a coward. As far as how much my system costs, I have no idea. I never added it up or thought it were important (as you seem to focus on). As far as being a pirate, that would assume that I distribute what I record, which I never have. I record things that I like in the hopes that one day I will be able too watch the recordings, although I probably only watch a few hours of TV for the entire week combined. But it's nice sometimes if people are over and you have just the right episode that they missed or something. As far as my mp3smuggler site not going anywhere, just because it doesn't go anywhere for you doesn't mean anything. What kind of idiot would post copyrighted mp3s on the home page of a publicly available site and then advertise it.
Really if you need 16 channels at once, my first thought would be why? But assuming you have a sane answer to that I'll tell you a little about my setup. Which is able to record 2 channels at once direct to hard disk, while watching at least 4 seperate channels on other TVs around my house, all using a single satellite dish (dual LNB).
Also, I am curious why you would want to use MPEG encoder cards to record your video. If you've ever tried this, you would quickly realize MPEG is a REALLY bad format to use if you plan on editing your video. I assume you will be editing your video right, I mean who and the hell would want to burn TV programs, commercials and all, straight to DVD with no editing. Anyway, editing MPEG video, no matter what you use is a bad proposition.
My system, which is two low power PCs with various large (300GB+) multidrive RAID arrays, firewire cards, 1 Canopus ADVC-100 on each system and Sony Satellite receivers. The Sony are important since they have a 9 pin serial connector which connect directly to the PC for changing channels and controlling the satellite receiver.
This system works flawless and I have recorded around 1,500 TV Shows since late 2001. My Linux based recording solution prior to this was moderately reliable but the quality was not good enough for DVD. With this setup the quality of the burned DVDs are almost indistinguishable from the broadcast source. In other words, very good. Oh by the way, my interface for scheduling is custom web interface using Mysql for storing data.
Now I suppose if you were hell bent on it, you could put multiple cards in a few machines and run multiple capture processes to grab your insane 16 channels, but that would be one busy machine. I would recommend a more sensible soultion, one like mine would probably work nice.
My setup includes 2 machines for grabbing video straight to disk in DV format (very high quality, does not degrade with editing like other lossy compression methods). Now these machines also double as mpeg encoders too, but don't do much else. They stay pretty busy with just those two tasks. I have another 3 machines that are dedicated MPEG encoders, using mjpegtools as the encoding software. My desktop machine is where I edit the video, using Kino. I also use my desktop to run dvdauthor, which masters the DVD-Video folders prior to burning them to disk. This machine sometimes encodes MPEG too. On some days I have as many as 6 or 7 MPEG encoder machines going. And I have yet another machines that actually burns the DVDs.
So I guess you could do it with a few machines, but you'll be sorry once you've got a bunch of video to encode or master and only a few CPU to do it. Make your capture machines the cheap, slow CPU type and your encoder, editing, mastering machines of the fast type and you might be all right. I'd still love to know why you would want to record 16 channels. Also, I assume you are doing this with Cable TV, which sucks for quality and regular cable too, since digital cable requires a box for each individual channel you need to watch at the same time. I can't see anyone paying for rental on 16 cable boxes. Even worse I can't see anyone spending that much money on 16 satellite reveivers. I have 6 satellite recievers and I almost cried when I had to pay for them.
Oh by the way, my system is 100% Linux end to end, so the poster who posted a comment above who says there is no Linux PVR solution that works, has no idea what he is talking about.
Can the original author of this thread reply and let us all know why he isn't using Kino, or specifically what features he needs that Kino does not have. Obviously he knows where to get it, as it's available in the same place dvgrab is. So to un-confuse us who might be thinking the same thing I am, please respond to my post. I do a LOT of video work, all on Linux. I make about 2 hours of finished video every single day using dvgrab, Kino, mjpegtools, dvdauthor and other assorted tools. So once again my question is why not use Kino?
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I really did get a kick out of some of these responses. I sell data protection products for a living and 20TB is what I would consider an average small/medium customer. Every business these days has tens of terabytes of data. Of course they all need to backup their data, so there is nothing novel here. We have plenty of customers backing up hundreds of petabytes of data. Every dataset just needs a plan for backup, pretty simple.
The way I see it, this guy has a few options. One option is to just get more disk and make redundant a redundant copy. This would have have saved him in this case of the mistakenly erased raid, depending on how smart his sync script is. But a redundant copy is not a valid genuine backup plan. So many types of failures will show the holes of the dumb redundant copy.
The other option for a home user who's not looking to spend a bunch of money, is LTO6. They hold a sufficiently large amount of data, so only a handful of tapes will be needed. LTO6 drives are cheap enough, they won't break the bank. Since the data is on tape, you can shuttle the tapes to an off site location. Seems pretty simple.
never thought about that. i don't post as much as i used to but i do read slashdot multiple times a day, every day. so i'm probably not going to sell it but i would trade it for a copy of CS3.
top that.
* Use the same static IP on a couple of devices
* Use the wrong netmask on your network on a few random devices (really hard to find if really done by accident)
* Create a bad static route at your firewall
Every TGI Fridays around here has those Trvia Game clickers for people who want to sit at the bar and play trivia and drink beer. Darn things seem to work pretty good, reliable and they can't be that expensive since they usually have dozens of them. They have a charging station for them at the back of the bar and it takes about 10 seconds to grab one and register with the system.
I can't imagine it would be too hard to adapt these for the purpose. You might start by tracking down the OEM for those little boxes.
The premise of using home schooling to reduce the state's cost of fueling the school buses is absurd. To do that would mean an all or nothing proposition. If you've got 50 kids on a school bus and 45 decide to opt for home schooling, you still have to get those 5 and take them to and from school. Depending on how many stops were actually able to be skipped, my guess is that the fuel savings is minimal.
Reason for kids not being able to be schooled at home are endless. Biggest one being THERE IS NO ONE THERE TO SUPERVISE THEM.
I don't know where you came from, but where I came from, kid's parents worked to put food on the table.
The victim must be a moron himself. I just hacked into 127.0.0.1 myself and the guy's system is still vulnerable. Un-freaking-believable. You would think that after a huge slashdot story about how moronic this guy was, he would fix his system. What an idiot!
Well I have my doubts that the Exchange Global Address book has ever worked. It just flat out does not work. It's never worked for me and I know my configuration is set properly. Exchange support for mail is intermittent as well. Some days connecting to Exchange just stops working - app locks up and I have to go to a command line and kill it. Let's see,... what else - responding to meeting requests from Outlook senders doesn't seem to work right as well. There's no way to schedule a meeting with other exchange users since the global address book doesn't work. Matter of fact, I just checked my Evolution app and Exchange calendar support has stopped working all together. Trying to check the box next to my calendar on the Exchange server causes the checkmark to immediately uncheck itself for some unknown reason. The WebDAV calendar support also does not work worth a damn either. My WebDAV enabled calendar doesn't seem to want to work - at least Sunbird does this right, and yes I do know how to configure a WebDAV enabled calendar. Crappy experiences as well with the LDAP support. Sometimes address lookups on my LDAP server just flake out, while pine is able to do lookups on LDAP just fine - ALWAYS.
All I'm saying is, this app has a *long*, *long* way to go before it is usable on Linux so wtf are they porting it to Windows?
I record the Jim Rome radio show from my streaming server at home every day on my work PC. I've done this for over 4 months and never missed a momment of the show.
/usr/local/bin/recordRadio 1 1>/dev/null 2>&1 /usr/local/bin/recordRadio 2 1>/dev/null 2>&1 /usr/local/bin/recordRadio 3 1>/dev/null
/usr/local/bin/radioRecord:
/radio/$year/$month/";n um.wav";
In crontab:
0 9 * * *
0 10 * * *
0 11 * * *
It's a three hour show, I create three seperate files because it's easier for me that way.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# $Id: radioRecord,v 1.3 2004/10/19 18:37:29 anewsome Exp $
use strict;
my $num = $ARGV[0];
my $time = 3600;
my $date = `date +%F`;
$date =~ s/\n//g;
my ($year, $month, $day) = split(/-/, $date);
my $cmd = "mkdir -p
system($cmd);
my $file = "/radio/$year/$month/Jim-Rome-$year-$month-$day-$
my $timedOut = 0;
my $pid;
my $command = qq~/usr/bin/ogg123 -d wav --file "$file" http://myhost/dss.ogg~;
$SIG{ALRM} = \
if ($pid = fork) {
#print "Launched pid: $pid\n";
} elsif (defined $pid) {
exec("$command");
} else {
die "Can't fork for some reason\n";
}
alarm($time);
while (1) {
if ($timedOut == 1) {
#print "Timeout, killing $pid\n";
kill INT => $pid;
exit;
}
select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25);
}
sub timeOut {
$timedOut = 1;
}
I can't believe there are not more rockem sockem robot posts on this thread. This toy was the best. What kid would not have endless hours of fun, trying to "knock his buddies block off". Freaking classic! I loved this thing.... Matter of fact, I'm 35 years old and I am seriously considering swinging thru the Toys-R-Us on the way home and calling up some buddies who think they can knock my block off.
Well your slashdot uid is still not as low as mine. I got my account on day 1. Where were you?
This copy and paste behavoir in X windows annoys me to no end too. It is a major pain sometimes and this is one thing I wish Unix/Linux/X-Windows would copy from the windows environment. I just wanted to make sure the rest of the world knew it.
When People Stop Responding To spam
That is to say, as long as people respond to spam and make it profitable for spammers to send spam, spam will continue to proliferate. No amount of changes to protocol, laws, secret codes, filters or anything else will significantly lower spam at all. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being a little optimistic.
I've had 3 Xboxes, all modded. First with mod chips and then with the chipless mods. I've never copied a game or even backed up a legit game. So, yes there are people who want to mod their console and have no intention on Pirating games. Scoot over and make room in that caddy for me.
Kino running on Linux will do this. If you're messing with DV on Linux, I'm really surprised you don't already know about Kino.
It says specifically only MSN client software. I guess I won't be winning.
Someone please mod this clown down as a troll. He obviously has never tried this and has no clue what he is talking about. X windows displaying a full screen moving TV picture over a broadband connection? Yeah, I'd like to see him try that.
I would expect that *everyone* gets the same kind of spam. So the penis enlargement spam I get, a 12 year old probably does too.
s/Insite/Insight/;
I spend about 2 hours a week watching non-sporting events on the tube. Now if I could just manage to do that with the computer.
Nope, no pirating here. Nothing for sale and no downloads. Not many people would download a 4.7GB DVD image or worse DV video at 1GB per 4:33.
Nothing about my post is BS have about 15 Linux boxes at home and everything else I have said is true. Not all boxes are decidcated to MPEG and recording though. Don't believe me, check the archives for dvdauthor, mjpegusers or any number of other lists. And yes I do have 6 Sony BAT-55 receivers, got them from Jewelry*Princess on E-Bay. She'll sell you some too, she has a bunch of them at $150 a pop. And no my satellite bill is not $5760 per year. Check directv.com, basic service is like $39 a month for a single receiver and each additional is $5 a month. 3 of my receivers are are used to power my video wall which is a 42 inch plasmsa and two 20.1 inch Dell LCD, I'd send you the link to the pictures if you weren't such an a coward. As far as how much my system costs, I have no idea. I never added it up or thought it were important (as you seem to focus on). As far as being a pirate, that would assume that I distribute what I record, which I never have. I record things that I like in the hopes that one day I will be able too watch the recordings, although I probably only watch a few hours of TV for the entire week combined. But it's nice sometimes if people are over and you have just the right episode that they missed or something. As far as my mp3smuggler site not going anywhere, just because it doesn't go anywhere for you doesn't mean anything. What kind of idiot would post copyrighted mp3s on the home page of a publicly available site and then advertise it.
Now who is the troll.
--Aaron
Also, I am curious why you would want to use MPEG encoder cards to record your video. If you've ever tried this, you would quickly realize MPEG is a REALLY bad format to use if you plan on editing your video. I assume you will be editing your video right, I mean who and the hell would want to burn TV programs, commercials and all, straight to DVD with no editing. Anyway, editing MPEG video, no matter what you use is a bad proposition.
My system, which is two low power PCs with various large (300GB+) multidrive RAID arrays, firewire cards, 1 Canopus ADVC-100 on each system and Sony Satellite receivers. The Sony are important since they have a 9 pin serial connector which connect directly to the PC for changing channels and controlling the satellite receiver.
This system works flawless and I have recorded around 1,500 TV Shows since late 2001. My Linux based recording solution prior to this was moderately reliable but the quality was not good enough for DVD. With this setup the quality of the burned DVDs are almost indistinguishable from the broadcast source. In other words, very good. Oh by the way, my interface for scheduling is custom web interface using Mysql for storing data.
Now I suppose if you were hell bent on it, you could put multiple cards in a few machines and run multiple capture processes to grab your insane 16 channels, but that would be one busy machine. I would recommend a more sensible soultion, one like mine would probably work nice.
My setup includes 2 machines for grabbing video straight to disk in DV format (very high quality, does not degrade with editing like other lossy compression methods). Now these machines also double as mpeg encoders too, but don't do much else. They stay pretty busy with just those two tasks. I have another 3 machines that are dedicated MPEG encoders, using mjpegtools as the encoding software. My desktop machine is where I edit the video, using Kino. I also use my desktop to run dvdauthor, which masters the DVD-Video folders prior to burning them to disk. This machine sometimes encodes MPEG too. On some days I have as many as 6 or 7 MPEG encoder machines going. And I have yet another machines that actually burns the DVDs.
So I guess you could do it with a few machines, but you'll be sorry once you've got a bunch of video to encode or master and only a few CPU to do it. Make your capture machines the cheap, slow CPU type and your encoder, editing, mastering machines of the fast type and you might be all right. I'd still love to know why you would want to record 16 channels. Also, I assume you are doing this with Cable TV, which sucks for quality and regular cable too, since digital cable requires a box for each individual channel you need to watch at the same time. I can't see anyone paying for rental on 16 cable boxes. Even worse I can't see anyone spending that much money on 16 satellite reveivers. I have 6 satellite recievers and I almost cried when I had to pay for them.
Oh by the way, my system is 100% Linux end to end, so the poster who posted a comment above who says there is no Linux PVR solution that works, has no idea what he is talking about.
-Aaron.
Can the original author of this thread reply and let us all know why he isn't using Kino, or specifically what features he needs that Kino does not have. Obviously he knows where to get it, as it's available in the same place dvgrab is. So to un-confuse us who might be thinking the same thing I am, please respond to my post. I do a LOT of video work, all on Linux. I make about 2 hours of finished video every single day using dvgrab, Kino, mjpegtools, dvdauthor and other assorted tools. So once again my question is why not use Kino?