Batch job queues up content. As one piece of content finishes, next piece is queued up and plays.
All of this can be made fairly redundant without too much effort. Setting up your schedule can be point & click.
The real work will be if you want to make it fancier to give the advertising department more direct control over what ads run when, as opposed to having the programming manager schedule all of that.
All of this can pretty easily give you a very detailed automated log of what content played when, when you gave your station ID's, what ads played, etc.
Pick one good well known scripting language, learn it well, and use it. I'm not going to enter the holy war of telling you which one to use.
MySQL can be replaced with PostgreSQL if you prefer. Doesn't matter which. You're not keeping your content in the database, just an index of where to find the content on the filesystem plus the broadcast schedule.
The REAL work in all of this is making it resilient so you don't hit dead air. Redundant systems with automated failover, etc. And the cost of entry may be high, but I can't recommend highly enough that your content be stored on a redundant SAN or NAS infrastructure. Most of my long nights repairing things have dealt with failed hard disks. A decent SAN or NAS will allow you to rest easily at night.
Additionally a system like this will allow you to have a much more intelligent content-rich web site.
And I'm also sure there are people at Google who would love to talk to you about your ad delivery system if you put something like this in place. You would like to increase your ad revenue, wouldn't you? Google is working on breaking into this space in a big way. It would be worth making a few calls.
OK Google says that nobody links to that site so I'm guessing you're the owner since nobody else seems to know about it yet.;-) In any case, thanks, that's just what the audiologist ordered. I've dropped an email there and asked how I might get involved.
But today it's an idea way behind its time. Current US military drones have optics that allow the big visible noisy planes to fly up so high that you cannot hear them or see them as they circle over you and relay high resolution video back home.
Yes, there are limited situations in which something like this would be preferred (like for example, highly overcast weather conditions with low cloud cover). It's really a niche product though.
Delegate someone from your department, preferably someone who has a better understanding of your company's product and who also has relatively good people skills, and ask to have that person included on meetings with your product development staff. Initially just an observer, your delegate will gain a better understanding of how your systems are actually used by the users. They will then be in an excellent position to offer adjustments to the architecture to better facilitate workflow, or to point out services already available that are presently underutilized.
During my time as an IT Director, I would also hold monthly pizza luncheons, where the IT department bought pizza for anyone at the campus who wanted to attend, and we'd have dialogue where the IT department talked a bit about what we had in our pipeline and then opened it up to the floor where the users could bring to our attention directly the things that bothered them.
Thankfully I am no longer in management and I'm back to frontline geekery but the pizza luncheons were one of the more productive programs I put into place during my time as an interim PHB.
It's high time for other assistive living devices, like Open Source hearing aids. Digital hearing aids are outside of the affordability range for many people who don't have insurance (i.e. thousands of dollars for a pair). I have a hard time believing that the devices are priced competetively at all, and suspect that putting some open source designs out there may really jumpstart the market and improve quality of life for the hearing impaired.
Not to mention, it would be nice for HA wearers to be able to make fine adjustments to their own HA's. Use your bluetooth PDA as an interface to more advanced functions.
Thanks! I am now once again testing OpenDNS in my home network environment and so far so good. I noticed Spamcop bouncing emails from Yahoo Groups (yikes!) but that's somebody else's fault, not OpenDNS. OpenDNS seems to be coming along nicely and looks like it should work well for me now.
I tried going the OpenDNS route. It broke the anti-spam blacklist rules I had in my Postfix config (which of course is entirely DNS-based). Using any other public DNS server it works fine.
American soldiers are often seen in full battle dress uniform with the telltale white wires going from a camo pouch on their LBV up to their ears.
The iPod is almost as ubiquitous in battle now as the rifle.
It only makes sense that someone would figure that out and start making iPod accessories that appealed to soldiers. This wouldn't be the first. Maxpedition has been selling LBE/LBV pouches for iPods (and other consumer electronics) and doing well at it. Why not a rugged case, as well?
In my line of work I am root on a number of pSeries machines, 520's, a number of 570's, and more.
It's a shame that Apple computers are the first impression that most people have of the architecture. Slicing and dicing a pSeries 570 gives a much different impression of just what a box like this can do.
Or forget the LPAR; run Gentoo right on the iron. Then
...so I will just say what half the other people here are thinking.
Maybe you can outsource this project to the west since there are plenty of very well experienced people who know this stuff who could use the work.
I don't hate India or Indians, but it will be a cold day in Hades before I give assistance to a shop whose only purpose in this world is to displace jobs formerly occupied by my neighbors.
Give it some time for the facts to come out. He just died this morning, and there had to be at least two cameras covering the event since he was filming a documentary when it happened. Interaction with a stingray is certainly something that would have had the cameras rolling.
We may not get to see the footage, but I'm sure the right people are going to get their hands on it and have a look to see what went so dreadfully wrong.
This happened in California. You can't have a handgun on you unless you are Somebody Important (or somebody who is just willing to break the law, like these crazy ALF assholes)
9/11 was the largest example of a terrorist attack that this country has ever seen. To suggest that ALF is not a bunch of terrorists because they're not pulling off 9/11 scale attacks is beyond foolish.
I'd rather fend these guys off by aiming a woodchipper at them and tossing chimpanzees into it.
I remember hanging out at ASCII Express's place during the BBS days. I ran a local BBS and so did he. AE had a special place in his heart for Barney and came up with a great door game that can be run as a standalone game in DOS as well. Anyone remember playing BarneySplat!?
Someone should put that in a VMware image so everyone today can enjoy it.
If you throw enough shit at the wall, every now and then some will stick.
He's said a few things that have resonated, and a lot of things that sounds just like the Anonymous Cowards here. If everything he's ever said would have been published as a comment on/. his overall karma would be poor.
So why do so many people listen when he talks, anyway? Hoping for another piece to stick?
I want to read up on this more before I decide to act, but like a lot of other people here I spend hundreds of dollars every year on O'Reilly books and probably once every year or two make it out to one of their conferences. I am seriously considering a total boycott of their products and conferences because of all of the stories surfacing of using their lawyers to achieve absurd business objectives.
If O'Reilly is going to be abusive of the patent system, I really don't want to fund a company that encourages their legal department to be so overly litigious. There are plenty of other good publishers out there now of technical books. Until now I had been loyal to O'Reilly because their books are generally good and have historically done a great job of documenting open systems and open source software. It would be a shame to find they are undoing all of that good karma that they earned with the community.
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It wouldn't even be all that complex.
MySQL database that indexes all content.
Also have a table for the schedule.
Batch job queues up content. As one piece of content finishes, next piece is queued up and plays.
All of this can be made fairly redundant without too much effort. Setting up your schedule can be point & click.
The real work will be if you want to make it fancier to give the advertising department more direct control over what ads run when, as opposed to having the programming manager schedule all of that.
All of this can pretty easily give you a very detailed automated log of what content played when, when you gave your station ID's, what ads played, etc.
Pick one good well known scripting language, learn it well, and use it. I'm not going to enter the holy war of telling you which one to use.
MySQL can be replaced with PostgreSQL if you prefer. Doesn't matter which. You're not keeping your content in the database, just an index of where to find the content on the filesystem plus the broadcast schedule.
The REAL work in all of this is making it resilient so you don't hit dead air. Redundant systems with automated failover, etc. And the cost of entry may be high, but I can't recommend highly enough that your content be stored on a redundant SAN or NAS infrastructure. Most of my long nights repairing things have dealt with failed hard disks. A decent SAN or NAS will allow you to rest easily at night.
Additionally a system like this will allow you to have a much more intelligent content-rich web site.
And I'm also sure there are people at Google who would love to talk to you about your ad delivery system if you put something like this in place. You would like to increase your ad revenue, wouldn't you? Google is working on breaking into this space in a big way. It would be worth making a few calls.
OK Google says that nobody links to that site so I'm guessing you're the owner since nobody else seems to know about it yet. ;-) In any case, thanks, that's just what the audiologist ordered. I've dropped an email there and asked how I might get involved.
But today it's an idea way behind its time. Current US military drones have optics that allow the big visible noisy planes to fly up so high that you cannot hear them or see them as they circle over you and relay high resolution video back home.
Yes, there are limited situations in which something like this would be preferred (like for example, highly overcast weather conditions with low cloud cover). It's really a niche product though.
Delegate someone from your department, preferably someone who has a better understanding of your company's product and who also has relatively good people skills, and ask to have that person included on meetings with your product development staff. Initially just an observer, your delegate will gain a better understanding of how your systems are actually used by the users. They will then be in an excellent position to offer adjustments to the architecture to better facilitate workflow, or to point out services already available that are presently underutilized.
During my time as an IT Director, I would also hold monthly pizza luncheons, where the IT department bought pizza for anyone at the campus who wanted to attend, and we'd have dialogue where the IT department talked a bit about what we had in our pipeline and then opened it up to the floor where the users could bring to our attention directly the things that bothered them.
Thankfully I am no longer in management and I'm back to frontline geekery but the pizza luncheons were one of the more productive programs I put into place during my time as an interim PHB.
1) He was using a third party battery, not an IBM battery, which is what exploded.
2) The tech support rep gets paid by Lenovo, not IBM.
It's high time for other assistive living devices, like Open Source hearing aids. Digital hearing aids are outside of the affordability range for many people who don't have insurance (i.e. thousands of dollars for a pair). I have a hard time believing that the devices are priced competetively at all, and suspect that putting some open source designs out there may really jumpstart the market and improve quality of life for the hearing impaired.
Not to mention, it would be nice for HA wearers to be able to make fine adjustments to their own HA's. Use your bluetooth PDA as an interface to more advanced functions.
Apparently that can be changed now.
Thanks! I am now once again testing OpenDNS in my home network environment and so far so good. I noticed Spamcop bouncing emails from Yahoo Groups (yikes!) but that's somebody else's fault, not OpenDNS. OpenDNS seems to be coming along nicely and looks like it should work well for me now.
I tried going the OpenDNS route. It broke the anti-spam blacklist rules I had in my Postfix config (which of course is entirely DNS-based). Using any other public DNS server it works fine.
American soldiers are often seen in full battle dress uniform with the telltale white wires going from a camo pouch on their LBV up to their ears.
The iPod is almost as ubiquitous in battle now as the rifle.
It only makes sense that someone would figure that out and start making iPod accessories that appealed to soldiers. This wouldn't be the first. Maxpedition has been selling LBE/LBV pouches for iPods (and other consumer electronics) and doing well at it. Why not a rugged case, as well?
It's a shame that Apple computers are the first impression that most people have of the architecture. Slicing and dicing a pSeries 570 gives a much different impression of just what a box like this can do.
Or forget the LPAR; run Gentoo right on the iron. Then but don't blink or you might miss it.
IBM has oodles of fab capacity. Don't forget Apple has dropped off the queue.
"Perhaps we can get together some day and discuss this while we take a ride to Walmart in your Lexus."
Sorry, I don't make enough to buy one of those. You'll have to pick between my 1981 Ford or my wife's 1984 Dodge "K car".
...so I will just say what half the other people here are thinking.
Maybe you can outsource this project to the west since there are plenty of very well experienced people who know this stuff who could use the work.
I don't hate India or Indians, but it will be a cold day in Hades before I give assistance to a shop whose only purpose in this world is to displace jobs formerly occupied by my neighbors.
Give it some time for the facts to come out. He just died this morning, and there had to be at least two cameras covering the event since he was filming a documentary when it happened. Interaction with a stingray is certainly something that would have had the cameras rolling.
We may not get to see the footage, but I'm sure the right people are going to get their hands on it and have a look to see what went so dreadfully wrong.
This happened in California. You can't have a handgun on you unless you are Somebody Important (or somebody who is just willing to break the law, like these crazy ALF assholes)
9/11 was the largest example of a terrorist attack that this country has ever seen. To suggest that ALF is not a bunch of terrorists because they're not pulling off 9/11 scale attacks is beyond foolish.
I'd rather fend these guys off by aiming a woodchipper at them and tossing chimpanzees into it.
After all, there are plenty of terrorists for GWB to kill right here in the USA.
These PETA-type folks are no better than Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, etc.
I remember hanging out at ASCII Express's place during the BBS days. I ran a local BBS and so did he. AE had a special place in his heart for Barney and came up with a great door game that can be run as a standalone game in DOS as well. Anyone remember playing BarneySplat!?
Someone should put that in a VMware image so everyone today can enjoy it.
If you throw enough shit at the wall, every now and then some will stick.
/. his overall karma would be poor.
He's said a few things that have resonated, and a lot of things that sounds just like the Anonymous Cowards here. If everything he's ever said would have been published as a comment on
So why do so many people listen when he talks, anyway? Hoping for another piece to stick?
I want to read up on this more before I decide to act, but like a lot of other people here I spend hundreds of dollars every year on O'Reilly books and probably once every year or two make it out to one of their conferences. I am seriously considering a total boycott of their products and conferences because of all of the stories surfacing of using their lawyers to achieve absurd business objectives.
If O'Reilly is going to be abusive of the patent system, I really don't want to fund a company that encourages their legal department to be so overly litigious. There are plenty of other good publishers out there now of technical books. Until now I had been loyal to O'Reilly because their books are generally good and have historically done a great job of documenting open systems and open source software. It would be a shame to find they are undoing all of that good karma that they earned with the community.
I mean, how could the SGC continue to operate if Cheyenne Mountain was closed down?
Keyboard? It's got bluetooth. You can use a bluetooth keyboard with it if you really want it to be a PC.
I just want it to be a phone. I'm glad it doesn't have a keyboard. I'd even be glad to ditch the camera.
Check your /. link that you posted in your comment; the devices that it links to don't seem to be around anymore.
But check out the HL-5250DN which is the suggested replacement model.
...one person just sent an email to everyone at the office that says "OMG I just got my pink slip" followed by thousands of replies that say "me too"?