I still use it, and it's reliable, but the 40 hours it took me to get this older version working has left me so scarred I don't dare do anything that might destabilize it (like upgrading). For me the upgrade path will be buying a whole new computer and capture device and spending another three weeks configuring the new version while I still have the old one working.
Have they fixed the behavior yet that you have to completely shut down your backend service in order to run the setup program to do a channel scan to find new channels? Because it sure would be nice to do that from your frontend without downtime. Especially when your backend is a headless box.
I know I shouldn't complain about free software, but my time isn't free and setting it up sure seemed to take a lot of it.
Eh? I'm halfway through Brandon Sanderson's second Mistborn book. Sanderson's writing seems pretty good to me, and the first Mistborn was very original.
I have high hopes for Sanderson's treatment of WOT.
I'm fairly certain that my car's antenna is not 144 feet long. Did I misunderstand something?
There are a few ideal antenna lengths for a given frequency. Since you car antenna is short, it just means it is not an ideal antenna: it works, but not as well as a 144ft one.
Also, most AM receivers have a coil of fine wire inside them to electrically lengthen the antenna. It's not as good as the same amount of wire stretched out in a line, but it still helps.
Then can you use the electricity to power the computers?
That's not as crazy as it sounds. As long as the cost of operating the steam turbines and generators (and the amortized cost of the installation) is less than the amount you'll save utility power, it's feasible.
My guess is utility power is going to be cheaper, though. The Rankine steam cycle isn't terribly efficient -- you'll be luck to get more than a few percent back from your waste heat.
I'm with you. Built a new 2k PC just a few months ago, and all I had to do was put a small patch on Bioshock to get it to run. Other than that, I haven't had any problems running "XP" games.
StarCraft 2 might be a deal-breaker though... if it's ever released.
Funny thing, if I stuck $100 under my mattress 10 years ago, I still have $100.
Actually, you don't: inflation has reduced the purchasing power of your $100 to the equivalent of about $78. That's why some people invest in stocks, bonds, and money market funds -- to try to at least keep pace with inflation. That's not gambling, though admittedly a lot of other people do gamble on the markets.
switching to just a few local channels for free would be an option - until you look at unbundling your catv from internet and phone etc.
Actually, this is the perfect time to cancel CaTV and phone service and use VoIP with naked DSL, naked cable, or wireless. We've done naked DSL, VoIP, and OTA DTV for some time now with and are saving a nice chunk o' money.
Heck, you don't even need the VoIP if you have a good cell phone plan.
Any alternatives also have major downsides. Your grandmother is an isolated case. Most users now understand the concepts involved. Your grandmother could simply turn on auto-save.
Or, she could just use something like Phantom where a file is simply an object whose state is persisted.
I'm not seeing any downsides to the "alternatives", either. In fact Phantom seems like an improvement in every possible sense except backwards compatibility. The way things are now are just a kludgy evolution of making humans work like a computer, instead of making the computer work the way a human expects.
To sum it up, American in denial of metric's superiority to imperial. Multiples of 12? C'mon...
Well, I'm an American that thinks imperial is silly and we should switch to metric, but to be fair:
Multiples of 12 does have the nice feature of always being evenly divisible by 3 -- something many multiples of 10 can't do without ugliness like.333333 etc.
I recall reading about someone in Hawaii doing something like this in order to both generate electricity and clean water by essentially using the deep ocean as the heat sink then the temperature differential to generate electricity
Ah yes, OTEC. Has a somewhat high cost per kWh, but a neat technology in any case. You could even make a GTEC (same thing but with Ground instead of Ocean) power plant using a sufficiently large closed loop in soil, or a sufficiently large aquifer.
...large distribution lists. I've just started working at a place where people use these for 'items of interest.' No, thanks, I don't want a kitten, but the cake is OK.
In 1890, LDS Church president Wilford Woodruff issued a public declaration (the Manifesto) announcing the official discontinuance of polygamy.... The Smoot Hearings in 1904 spurred the LDS Church to issue a Second Manifesto against polygamy. By 1910 the LDS Church excommunicated those who practiced polygamy.
I don't know if it was foreign matter or a manufacturing defect in the disc, but I had recorded DVD hanging on my wall at work that had a fuzzy blob of "not burned" on it too. So it's not a farfetched idea.
a screwdriver, brick, hammer, etc... all serve useful purposes. A gun only serves one purpose: to kill or otherwise injure another human being
Wrong. Guns are mostly used for hunting, target shooting, and stopping violent attacks upon the innocent. These three outnumber criminal uses by far. There are millions of rounds of ammo made in the US each year, and the number used by criminals to harm people is a tiny tiny fraction of that.
The fewer guns (or speeding cars) the fewer deaths. Simple as that.
Unconstitutional. Simple as that. We could also cut down on drug use by allowing the police to search anyone anytime without a reason, but the cure is worse than the disease -- there's a reason we have a Bill of Rights. And if you disagree with the BoR, well, move to Britian.
Exactly. I'm still trying to figure out what good a datacenter is without network connectivity. Do you fire up a massive scientific simulation on a Beowulf cluster and then come back in a year when it's done crunching?
Or you can run VNC, though I believe its performance will be less than RDP.
Using TightVNC (high compression) and the DFMirage driver helps a lot, as does forcing your VNC viewer into 256-color mode (something I also do for RDP). I don't know about constrained network bandwidth, but on a LAN these things make VNC just as fast as RDP IMHO.
Tip for using 800x600 -- if you set the Taskbar to auto-hide, you will still have just enough room to click OK/Cancel on tall dialogs.
Back to the submitter -- seriously, Telnet/SSH command line is really going to be your main option. I really doubt you're going to be able to do anything useful over a 9.6Kbps GUI. You should grab a Linux box with two bridged NICs and set up NetEm to do some bench testing and see how slow you can go before you blow a blood vessel in your head.
I mean, if I want to own a gun in UK, I can do so legally; it is just not something you can buy in the local car boot sale.
Define "gun". If you mean a primitive muzzleloader from the 1800s, or a pump-action shotgun that holds no more than 3 rounds, sure. If you mean a modern semi-auto rifle or handgun, good luck getting a Home Office license for it because it's probably easier to have tea with the Queen.
And since British can't use guns to defend their lives anyway, what's the point? That's really what many Americans mean when they refer to the right to bear arms; what they're really saying is, "we have the right to respond to deadly force with deadly force"... which is something the British don't seem to have, quite separate from any gun rights.
Actually, while WWVB does send UTC time, it also sends a 'daylight saving time status' code.
It does, but the brain-dead implementation on our WWVB clock ignores it. It has a DST mode, but it just advances or retards the current time -- regardless of whatever DST flag is being broadcast.
I'd like to find the engineer responsible (or his middle manager) and smack him. With the clock.
I wouldn't advise replacing your FC SAN with consumer level hardware, but you certainly don't need FC SAN performance for backups. At work we did exactly what the OP suggested, and that was stick 4 big IDE drives in an old workstation (this was back before SATA was common), install Windows and enable NTFS compression, and schedule a Task to fire off a little after quitting time. So what if it's slow, as long as the backup finishes before people come in to work the next morning who cares. If you use a diff-style backup like SyncToy or Rsync, everything after your first backup goes pretty quick.
Accelerate to your speed quickly. This actually wastes gas. It's usually touted by people that really dont know how cars work.
Sounds like you really don't know how cars work, then. Older mechanical fuel injection systems or carburetors CAN get better mileage with full-throttle acceleration (if you keep the RPM down using a manual transmission). The reason is the open throttle lets the engine breathe easier so it's not wasting energy drawing air past a restricted opening. BMW and others have experimented with eliminating the restrictive butterfly to improve economy, and of course one of the reasons diesels enjoy better economy is because they have no throttle butterfly.
So, yes, you can improve economy by keeping that throttle open and the RPM low -- as long as your computerized fuel injected engine doesn't perform WOT enrichment (or you disable that feature).
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Right where it belongs -- on the network.
Are you implying employees still store data locally on their hard drive? Madness.
I still use it, and it's reliable, but the 40 hours it took me to get this older version working has left me so scarred I don't dare do anything that might destabilize it (like upgrading). For me the upgrade path will be buying a whole new computer and capture device and spending another three weeks configuring the new version while I still have the old one working.
Have they fixed the behavior yet that you have to completely shut down your backend service in order to run the setup program to do a channel scan to find new channels? Because it sure would be nice to do that from your frontend without downtime. Especially when your backend is a headless box.
I know I shouldn't complain about free software, but my time isn't free and setting it up sure seemed to take a lot of it.
Eh? I'm halfway through Brandon Sanderson's second Mistborn book. Sanderson's writing seems pretty good to me, and the first Mistborn was very original.
I have high hopes for Sanderson's treatment of WOT.
There are a few ideal antenna lengths for a given frequency. Since you car antenna is short, it just means it is not an ideal antenna: it works, but not as well as a 144ft one.
Also, most AM receivers have a coil of fine wire inside them to electrically lengthen the antenna. It's not as good as the same amount of wire stretched out in a line, but it still helps.
Maybe he made it up -- a fake spoiler.
Maybe Harry kills Dumbledore.
That's not as crazy as it sounds. As long as the cost of operating the steam turbines and generators (and the amortized cost of the installation) is less than the amount you'll save utility power, it's feasible.
My guess is utility power is going to be cheaper, though. The Rankine steam cycle isn't terribly efficient -- you'll be luck to get more than a few percent back from your waste heat.
I'm with you. Built a new 2k PC just a few months ago, and all I had to do was put a small patch on Bioshock to get it to run. Other than that, I haven't had any problems running "XP" games.
StarCraft 2 might be a deal-breaker though... if it's ever released.
Actually, you don't: inflation has reduced the purchasing power of your $100 to the equivalent of about $78. That's why some people invest in stocks, bonds, and money market funds -- to try to at least keep pace with inflation. That's not gambling, though admittedly a lot of other people do gamble on the markets.
FYI Mythtv supports EIT, so you can get free schedule data for US ATSC (OTA) or European DVB.
Additionally, some Myth users get schedule data for for free. It's called EIT.
Actually, this is the perfect time to cancel CaTV and phone service and use VoIP with naked DSL, naked cable, or wireless. We've done naked DSL, VoIP, and OTA DTV for some time now with and are saving a nice chunk o' money.
Heck, you don't even need the VoIP if you have a good cell phone plan.
Or, she could just use something like Phantom where a file is simply an object whose state is persisted.
I'm not seeing any downsides to the "alternatives", either. In fact Phantom seems like an improvement in every possible sense except backwards compatibility. The way things are now are just a kludgy evolution of making humans work like a computer, instead of making the computer work the way a human expects.
Well, I'm an American that thinks imperial is silly and we should switch to metric, but to be fair:
Multiples of 12 does have the nice feature of always being evenly divisible by 3 -- something many multiples of 10 can't do without ugliness like .333333 etc.
Ah yes, OTEC. Has a somewhat high cost per kWh, but a neat technology in any case. You could even make a GTEC (same thing but with Ground instead of Ocean) power plant using a sufficiently large closed loop in soil, or a sufficiently large aquifer.
Unless the Church threatened disciplinary action against non-contributing members (i.e., duress), this isn't much of an argument.
The cake is a LIE!
Mormons are no longer polygamous. From Wikipedia:
I don't know if it was foreign matter or a manufacturing defect in the disc, but I had recorded DVD hanging on my wall at work that had a fuzzy blob of "not burned" on it too. So it's not a farfetched idea.
Wrong. Guns are mostly used for hunting, target shooting, and stopping violent attacks upon the innocent. These three outnumber criminal uses by far. There are millions of rounds of ammo made in the US each year, and the number used by criminals to harm people is a tiny tiny fraction of that.
Unconstitutional. Simple as that. We could also cut down on drug use by allowing the police to search anyone anytime without a reason, but the cure is worse than the disease -- there's a reason we have a Bill of Rights. And if you disagree with the BoR, well, move to Britian.
Exactly. I'm still trying to figure out what good a datacenter is without network connectivity. Do you fire up a massive scientific simulation on a Beowulf cluster and then come back in a year when it's done crunching?
Using TightVNC (high compression) and the DFMirage driver helps a lot, as does forcing your VNC viewer into 256-color mode (something I also do for RDP). I don't know about constrained network bandwidth, but on a LAN these things make VNC just as fast as RDP IMHO.
Tip for using 800x600 -- if you set the Taskbar to auto-hide, you will still have just enough room to click OK/Cancel on tall dialogs.
Back to the submitter -- seriously, Telnet/SSH command line is really going to be your main option. I really doubt you're going to be able to do anything useful over a 9.6Kbps GUI. You should grab a Linux box with two bridged NICs and set up NetEm to do some bench testing and see how slow you can go before you blow a blood vessel in your head.
Define "gun". If you mean a primitive muzzleloader from the 1800s, or a pump-action shotgun that holds no more than 3 rounds, sure. If you mean a modern semi-auto rifle or handgun, good luck getting a Home Office license for it because it's probably easier to have tea with the Queen.
And since British can't use guns to defend their lives anyway, what's the point? That's really what many Americans mean when they refer to the right to bear arms; what they're really saying is, "we have the right to respond to deadly force with deadly force"... which is something the British don't seem to have, quite separate from any gun rights.
It does, but the brain-dead implementation on our WWVB clock ignores it. It has a DST mode, but it just advances or retards the current time -- regardless of whatever DST flag is being broadcast.
I'd like to find the engineer responsible (or his middle manager) and smack him. With the clock.
Twice.
I wouldn't advise replacing your FC SAN with consumer level hardware, but you certainly don't need FC SAN performance for backups. At work we did exactly what the OP suggested, and that was stick 4 big IDE drives in an old workstation (this was back before SATA was common), install Windows and enable NTFS compression, and schedule a Task to fire off a little after quitting time. So what if it's slow, as long as the backup finishes before people come in to work the next morning who cares. If you use a diff-style backup like SyncToy or Rsync, everything after your first backup goes pretty quick.
Sounds like you really don't know how cars work, then. Older mechanical fuel injection systems or carburetors CAN get better mileage with full-throttle acceleration (if you keep the RPM down using a manual transmission). The reason is the open throttle lets the engine breathe easier so it's not wasting energy drawing air past a restricted opening. BMW and others have experimented with eliminating the restrictive butterfly to improve economy, and of course one of the reasons diesels enjoy better economy is because they have no throttle butterfly.
So, yes, you can improve economy by keeping that throttle open and the RPM low -- as long as your computerized fuel injected engine doesn't perform WOT enrichment (or you disable that feature).