Friends and myself have moved most of our FreeBSD boxes to NetBSD. As FreeBSD has grown bulky and fat (like many linux distros), NetBSD was there to fall back on. NetBSD feels and acts like UNIX in a world where everyone wants to act like Windows.
If I'm running a web server, a shell host, or any type of internet server I don't want X windows and a bunch of other garbage. I expect the install to be small and tight.
The documentation for NetBSD is clear and good. Things are precise. When I search for answers to Linux issues, there is so many distros and versions and garbage in the way between me and what I'm looking for.
We are running NetBSD on modern hardware. The hardware support has been fine by me, from oddball USB sound adaptors used to feed live 24x7x365 audio feeds, to notebook computers with various PCMCIA cards acting as a network bridge, to P4 and AMD systems running high usage shell and web hosts for friends, NetBSD does what we want.
There are some flaws, yes. But no more than other operating systems. A Journaling file system would be nice, but other than that... We are happy.
People say "Why run NetBSD when there are other choices." Why run Linux? If it gets the job done, and does it well, I'm happy. I run Linux too, mainly for machines that need desktops (closed source video card drivers), and Java stuff.
Hey NETBSD, how about a donation jar so the community can donate to fund the development of a good journaling file system?
So if HBO is poisioning the torrent data, then those people that have ROME data that get a C&D from the HBO Laywers could argue in fact the data wasn't the show, but garbage fetched from a trashbot?
How about a new business model? I'd pay $1 per show to download a real file of the quality of the shows I've seen on the net. You know, the DivX files. Sure in their minds it's worth a $99 box set, but lets be honest... how many millions of people would plunk $1 to download error free, hassle free an episode? Maybe tolerate 2 ads before the video plays. No DRM.
It would then not be worth the trouble to even bother with torrents.
Some of the referenced articles point to the CWS website being hosted by an ISP in the USA (State of MA). It would seem like that would be an opportunity to get the information of those responsible... either by gaining access to systems / physical property or simply beating the answer out of the company owners.....
Another nice tactic would be if virus writers would release other malicious viruses using the CWS name and website, set CWS up for a nice fall and huge legal action.
You can always follow the money. Heck, offer to pay CWS to run banner ads on their hijack search engine then go rm the people accepting the money.
Sun had a machine called a Voyager which was an official Sun portable IIRC.
RDI and Tadpole both made Sparc notebooks, as well as a few others. Milspec mostly.
IBM had a PPC RS/6000 notebook... It limited in version of AIX it will run though.
The SGI luggables in Twister were made by banned from the ranch or another group. They are fake, just Indy presenter displays. Given the sizes of the boxes, it would have been trivial to pack an Indy in a case that size. RDI or someone I believe offered portable SGI conversions but they would crush nuts, not sit on a lap (60 pounds?).
One word... eBay! Your source for grey market metro switching hardware.
In our metro area, prices for business bandwidth (via fiber) are out of sync with consumer grade circuits. Telcove is helping correct the monopoly that Cox Business (was Fibernet) had, to a degree.
Too bad they can't make DivX shows and distro them via bittorrent. Perhaps come up with a low cost subscription model, say $1/month for 4 episodes. If it got popular enough, they could generate revenue from advertisements (with a please do not remove the ads from the file intro). Next thing you know, homebrew PVRs are retrieving the show weekly, and the internet is allowing us to successfully subvert the commercial broadcast & cable TV networks.
So if your computer has a "meltdown" when the power goes out and the fridge goes warm, do you have to buy a new CPU? Carry it home in a cooler full of dry ice from CompUSA?
Hmmm new Outlook virus turns off ACPI, melts thousands of CPUs.
Haha, everyone said, "Tivo is nice, be nice to them!! Whaaa" People defended this company, oddly, whenever hacking the units outside of "cool tricks" were discussed.
First you landed encrypted content, now you've got pop up ads!
NOW is the time to replace the Tivo's Linux OS with NetBSD and tools to eliminate Tivo's involvement with the units! MythTivo anyone?
They missed so much. TRS-80 model 100, the handhelds like the MS-DOS HP-95LX, and the quasi MS-DOS Atari Portfolio, the first laptop with a color display (NOT A THINKPAD). Libretto! Atari STacy!
I've always wished solitare could report minutes spent with the mouse moving cards. Can you imagine having a statistic for the enterprise for amount of active solitare games / hours spent playing?
Setting is a place I used to work at, a gov't place. We were contractors installing and administrating the network and servers.
A coworker and myself had to go to the 2nd floor of this other building, to fix one of the fiber optic drops (They ran 10mbps fiber to the desktop, we had to remove the included Intel 10/100 NICs and replace them with $400 10baseFL nics).
We came in, everything was call. But we had forgotten a tool. The workers were mostly quiet, as the cubes didn't allow us to see them. The old barrick buildings turned offices had a spacious and hollow feel on the 2nd floors. It was my coworkers turn to go get the piece or part we had forgotten. So hung tight as my coworker left.
The minute the door shut and his footsteps were heard thumping down the stairs, I could hear the mouse clicks increase. Immediately I could hear the Space Cadet pinball game from multiple computers. It was fairly funny. As my coworkers footsteps were heard coming up the stairs, all of the game noises went away as the games were minimized.
I said really loudly "DOUDE, you MISSED ALL THE ACTION"
In order for the entire site to be connected to each other, Orkut can't make an open registration policy. It will destroy how it works (everyone is connected to everyone).
The biggest problem is they can't handle the traffic. If Brazil is awake, you can forget about logging in. The server issues have resulted in many people giving up on it, it was fun at first but many of the good commnities I was in went dead, not a post since the server problems kicked off.
I wonder what they are doing (if anything) to remedy the situation. I heard they put squid boxes infront of all the web servers.
If the site worked, and people were using it, I imagine more people from the US would be joining. I'm reluctant to invite more people because they won't be able to log in.
No, not the MacGyver episode. Spam email is supposidly very ineffective. Everyone receives thousands of spam mails, but who actually does business with the company? The return rates are supposidly very bad, perhaps 5 people per million messages sent.
Spam mail is sent with a computer, in bulk, really fast.
One saving grace is that the telemarketers will generally use peopl (yes, there are some IVR calls, but the majority are humans). So hopefully the rate of return on the bulk number of calls needed to get a sale will make this ineffective.
I was telling people this before... "VoIP and other cheap unregulated phone service is great... but it will degrade into a state like email flooded with garbage"
Oh, and for fun, next time a charity calls... ask what percentage goes to the organization they are representing. Fun game.
I believe the figures run 10% to 25% of current houses are sold for speculation. It isn't just families buying houses. You have people buying vacation homes, and other people buying properties to turn into rentals, to flip, and even *foreign investors* getting in on the chance to make money.
What happens when there isn't enough tennants? Not enough buyers? What happens when the speculators quit speculating and paying high prices? Will they freak out when the prices start to decline?
In my region housing has jumped significantly, and has left first time homeowners in the dust. But hey, no one looses. Oh yea, and we are about to loose 1100 high paying jobs, and potentially 10,000 people if two carriers are moved to Florida.
It's speculation. Just like the.coms, there are alot of n00bs playing the game. I'd be willing to bet there are alot of n00bs that are about to get fragged. These times aren't like past times. Do you feel confident the economy is getting stronger? I don't. I know a number of people who have taken salary cuts to remain employed (and their employers are gov contractors milking the gov't tit).
The press release for February made it sound like it is. It bragged about all these new jobs that were created. But wait, why did it say the unemployment rate rose slightly near the end? OOPS, it's because MORE JOBS WERE LOST than were created! We have more older people are working longer. Lots of people entering the workforce. Lots of jobs moving overseas. High productivity from those that have jobs. Where is the money going to come from?
I believe if you look at Japan, they have a limited supply of land... and have suffered a housing bubble.
There are many markets in the US where house rental rates are lower than sale prices. Much of this is driven by speculation. There are people taking losses renting out their homes banking on the fact that someday the property should be worth more than the rediculous price they paid for it.
The jack layout is similiar to that of the Pinnacle PCTV USB Deluxe. In many regards the PCTV is a total POS, with a high rate of failure. But when it works, the output is actually decent. There is indeed linux drivers, and they do work sometimes (kudos to the author of them). We used a few of them at Defcon to dump all of the video to disk. Upon looking at it, one of them dumped nothing but reptitive block of gibberish.
The PCTV USB uses the same chipset that the new Tivos do. That is, the Broadcom KFIR-II. The PCTV USB doesn't do MPEG4/DIVX (xvid for life, screw divx). They do MPEG2 and MPEG1. MPEG2 quality being good, MPEG1 not up to par with a good mpeg1 videocd encode job.
The Pinnacle unit *IS NOT MADE BY PINNACLE*. I wonder if the Plextor is made by the same company that originally made the Pinnacle unit? The jacks look similar in placement and configuration....
Too expensive, but I have a cool idea
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Too expensive... but a cool idea would be to hack the software so it shares your collection with all of your friends. Perhaps only let it serve 2 tracks at any given time, then make a network of these so you can play music from anyone connected to the network. You wouldn't store the stuff locally, of course, but the collective would have a huge library of music.
I was looking at those setup tv devices that let you play stored mpeg1/2/4 content from a server. Neat but they rely on a host computer to do processing, which isn't a glamerous as a housewide media network of setop boxes accessing a fileserver.
Exactly. $10 for an album from itunes without the overhead of retail sales, distribution, packaging, product... yea, they can shove it.
DVD players can be had for $20. TWENTY DOLLARS. Everything in the world has gotten cheaper except gasoline and CD/DVD/Movies. It's time for them to adjust their prices or die.
CDs should cost $5 each. They will move more volume.
Their website lacks simple details. If you look at other sites that sell BP solar panels, they say "You can expact this many KwHr from a 20 2'x4' panels."
They show pictures of the 14x10 array, but it doesn't actually commit the output of it. It says the per square inch figure. The commercial page mentions installations of 1Kw or more... 1Kw would be 10 square inches of their product.
Very odd.
If normal solar panels were less expensive I'd be all for it. If every house had a 2Kw array, it would definitly help reduce load during peak times in the summers, and reduce overall consumption. I did some research, and if I were to pay $60,000+ (new price) for a solar array, after 30 years I could expect to have saved $30,000. Groan.
lo-jack is actually activated via RF transmission. The lo-jack device then sends out a beacon, which properly equipped police cars use radio direction finding equipment to locate the vehicle. There is no GPS involved in the older lo-jack systems. (Police cars with 4 evenly spaced antennas in a square are generally equipped with the RDF unit).
On-star is nothing more than a cell phone + GPS. It should be possible to figure out the number scheme and own up expensive luxury cars... "MRS MARTHA.. THIS IS GOD, YOUR DRIVING TOO FAST!" "But I'm stopped" "DON'T ARGUE!"...
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Friends and myself have moved most of our FreeBSD boxes to NetBSD. As FreeBSD has grown bulky and fat (like many linux distros), NetBSD was there to fall back on. NetBSD feels and acts like UNIX in a world where everyone wants to act like Windows.
If I'm running a web server, a shell host, or any type of internet server I don't want X windows and a bunch of other garbage. I expect the install to be small and tight.
The documentation for NetBSD is clear and good. Things are precise. When I search for answers to Linux issues, there is so many distros and versions and garbage in the way between me and what I'm looking for.
We are running NetBSD on modern hardware. The hardware support has been fine by me, from oddball USB sound adaptors used to feed live 24x7x365 audio feeds, to notebook computers with various PCMCIA cards acting as a network bridge, to P4 and AMD systems running high usage shell and web hosts for friends, NetBSD does what we want.
There are some flaws, yes. But no more than other operating systems. A Journaling file system would be nice, but other than that... We are happy.
People say "Why run NetBSD when there are other choices." Why run Linux? If it gets the job done, and does it well, I'm happy. I run Linux too, mainly for machines that need desktops (closed source video card drivers), and Java stuff.
Hey NETBSD, how about a donation jar so the community can donate to fund the development of a good journaling file system?
I am slightly familiar with their storage products. Perhaps the CPU you were asking about is new and really isn't mature?
You can use NetBSD on some embedded platforms if you wished.
So if HBO is poisioning the torrent data, then those people that have ROME data that get a C&D from the HBO Laywers could argue in fact the data wasn't the show, but garbage fetched from a trashbot?
How about a new business model? I'd pay $1 per show to download a real file of the quality of the shows I've seen on the net. You know, the DivX files. Sure in their minds it's worth a $99 box set, but lets be honest... how many millions of people would plunk $1 to download error free, hassle free an episode? Maybe tolerate 2 ads before the video plays. No DRM.
It would then not be worth the trouble to even bother with torrents.
TVoverIP is coming.
Some of the referenced articles point to the CWS website being hosted by an ISP in the USA (State of MA). It would seem like that would be an opportunity to get the information of those responsible... either by gaining access to systems / physical property or simply beating the answer out of the company owners.....
Another nice tactic would be if virus writers would release other malicious viruses using the CWS name and website, set CWS up for a nice fall and huge legal action.
You can always follow the money. Heck, offer to pay CWS to run banner ads on their hijack search engine then go rm the people accepting the money.
Sun had a machine called a Voyager which was an official Sun portable IIRC.
RDI and Tadpole both made Sparc notebooks, as well as a few others. Milspec mostly.
IBM had a PPC RS/6000 notebook... It limited in version of AIX it will run though.
The SGI luggables in Twister were made by banned from the ranch or another group. They are fake, just Indy presenter displays. Given the sizes of the boxes, it would have been trivial to pack an Indy in a case that size. RDI or someone I believe offered portable SGI conversions but they would crush nuts, not sit on a lap (60 pounds?).
they developed on BSD.
One word... eBay! Your source for grey market metro switching hardware.
In our metro area, prices for business bandwidth (via fiber) are out of sync with consumer grade circuits. Telcove is helping correct the monopoly that Cox Business (was Fibernet) had, to a degree.
Too bad they can't make DivX shows and distro them via bittorrent. Perhaps come up with a low cost subscription model, say $1/month for 4 episodes. If it got popular enough, they could generate revenue from advertisements (with a please do not remove the ads from the file intro). Next thing you know, homebrew PVRs are retrieving the show weekly, and the internet is allowing us to successfully subvert the commercial broadcast & cable TV networks.
So if your computer has a "meltdown" when the power goes out and the fridge goes warm, do you have to buy a new CPU? Carry it home in a cooler full of dry ice from CompUSA?
Hmmm new Outlook virus turns off ACPI, melts thousands of CPUs.
Haha, everyone said, "Tivo is nice, be nice to them!! Whaaa" People defended this company, oddly, whenever hacking the units outside of "cool tricks" were discussed.
First you landed encrypted content, now you've got pop up ads!
NOW is the time to replace the Tivo's Linux OS with NetBSD and tools to eliminate Tivo's involvement with the units! MythTivo anyone?
They missed so much. TRS-80 model 100, the handhelds like the MS-DOS HP-95LX, and the quasi MS-DOS Atari Portfolio, the first laptop with a color display (NOT A THINKPAD). Libretto! Atari STacy!
I've always wished solitare could report minutes spent with the mouse moving cards. Can you imagine having a statistic for the enterprise for amount of active solitare games / hours spent playing?
Check this out,
Setting is a place I used to work at, a gov't place. We were contractors installing and administrating the network and servers.
A coworker and myself had to go to the 2nd floor of this other building, to fix one of the fiber optic drops (They ran 10mbps fiber to the desktop, we had to remove the included Intel 10/100 NICs and replace them with $400 10baseFL nics).
We came in, everything was call. But we had forgotten a tool. The workers were mostly quiet, as the cubes didn't allow us to see them. The old barrick buildings turned offices had a spacious and hollow feel on the 2nd floors. It was my coworkers turn to go get the piece or part we had forgotten. So hung tight as my coworker left.
The minute the door shut and his footsteps were heard thumping down the stairs, I could hear the mouse clicks increase. Immediately I could hear the Space Cadet pinball game from multiple computers. It was fairly funny. As my coworkers footsteps were heard coming up the stairs, all of the game noises went away as the games were minimized.
I said really loudly "DOUDE, you MISSED ALL THE ACTION"
Many gov't jobs = welfare/wealth redistribution.
In order for the entire site to be connected to each other, Orkut can't make an open registration policy. It will destroy how it works (everyone is connected to everyone).
The biggest problem is they can't handle the traffic. If Brazil is awake, you can forget about logging in. The server issues have resulted in many people giving up on it, it was fun at first but many of the good commnities I was in went dead, not a post since the server problems kicked off.
I wonder what they are doing (if anything) to remedy the situation. I heard they put squid boxes infront of all the web servers.
If the site worked, and people were using it, I imagine more people from the US would be joining. I'm reluctant to invite more people because they won't be able to log in.
No, not the MacGyver episode. Spam email is supposidly very ineffective. Everyone receives thousands of spam mails, but who actually does business with the company? The return rates are supposidly very bad, perhaps 5 people per million messages sent.
Spam mail is sent with a computer, in bulk, really fast.
One saving grace is that the telemarketers will generally use peopl (yes, there are some IVR calls, but the majority are humans). So hopefully the rate of return on the bulk number of calls needed to get a sale will make this ineffective.
I was telling people this before... "VoIP and other cheap unregulated phone service is great... but it will degrade into a state like email flooded with garbage"
Oh, and for fun, next time a charity calls... ask what percentage goes to the organization they are representing. Fun game.
There is a 10% surplus in houses in the US.
.coms, there are alot of n00bs playing the game. I'd be willing to bet there are alot of n00bs that are about to get fragged. These times aren't like past times. Do you feel confident the economy is getting stronger? I don't. I know a number of people who have taken salary cuts to remain employed (and their employers are gov contractors milking the gov't tit).
I believe the figures run 10% to 25% of current houses are sold for speculation. It isn't just families buying houses. You have people buying vacation homes, and other people buying properties to turn into rentals, to flip, and even *foreign investors* getting in on the chance to make money.
What happens when there isn't enough tennants? Not enough buyers? What happens when the speculators quit speculating and paying high prices? Will they freak out when the prices start to decline?
In my region housing has jumped significantly, and has left first time homeowners in the dust. But hey, no one looses. Oh yea, and we are about to loose 1100 high paying jobs, and potentially 10,000 people if two carriers are moved to Florida.
It's speculation. Just like the
The press release for February made it sound like it is. It bragged about all these new jobs that were created. But wait, why did it say the unemployment rate rose slightly near the end? OOPS, it's because MORE JOBS WERE LOST than were created! We have more older people are working longer. Lots of people entering the workforce. Lots of jobs moving overseas. High productivity from those that have jobs. Where is the money going to come from?
I believe if you look at Japan, they have a limited supply of land... and have suffered a housing bubble.
Supply and demand.
There are many markets in the US where house rental rates are lower than sale prices. Much of this is driven by speculation. There are people taking losses renting out their homes banking on the fact that someday the property should be worth more than the rediculous price they paid for it.
The jack layout is similiar to that of the Pinnacle PCTV USB Deluxe. In many regards the PCTV is a total POS, with a high rate of failure. But when it works, the output is actually decent. There is indeed linux drivers, and they do work sometimes (kudos to the author of them). We used a few of them at Defcon to dump all of the video to disk. Upon looking at it, one of them dumped nothing but reptitive block of gibberish.
The PCTV USB uses the same chipset that the new Tivos do. That is, the Broadcom KFIR-II. The PCTV USB doesn't do MPEG4/DIVX (xvid for life, screw divx). They do MPEG2 and MPEG1. MPEG2 quality being good, MPEG1 not up to par with a good mpeg1 videocd encode job.
The Pinnacle unit *IS NOT MADE BY PINNACLE*. I wonder if the Plextor is made by the same company that originally made the Pinnacle unit? The jacks look similar in placement and configuration....
You should quit your job when they escort you out.
Why'd they have to name it edonkey2000?
MGM versus DonkeyPunch!! Oh that would be a riot.
Too expensive... but a cool idea would be to hack the software so it shares your collection with all of your friends. Perhaps only let it serve 2 tracks at any given time, then make a network of these so you can play music from anyone connected to the network. You wouldn't store the stuff locally, of course, but the collective would have a huge library of music.
I was looking at those setup tv devices that let you play stored mpeg1/2/4 content from a server. Neat but they rely on a host computer to do processing, which isn't a glamerous as a housewide media network of setop boxes accessing a fileserver.
Exactly. $10 for an album from itunes without the overhead of retail sales, distribution, packaging, product... yea, they can shove it.
DVD players can be had for $20. TWENTY DOLLARS. Everything in the world has gotten cheaper except gasoline and CD/DVD/Movies. It's time for them to adjust their prices or die.
CDs should cost $5 each. They will move more volume.
Their website lacks simple details. If you look at other sites that sell BP solar panels, they say "You can expact this many KwHr from a 20 2'x4' panels." They show pictures of the 14x10 array, but it doesn't actually commit the output of it. It says the per square inch figure. The commercial page mentions installations of 1Kw or more... 1Kw would be 10 square inches of their product. Very odd. If normal solar panels were less expensive I'd be all for it. If every house had a 2Kw array, it would definitly help reduce load during peak times in the summers, and reduce overall consumption. I did some research, and if I were to pay $60,000+ (new price) for a solar array, after 30 years I could expect to have saved $30,000. Groan.
Now companies can bury advertisements for other products and use creative writing that makes it sound like there could be reward by reading the EULA.
lo-jack is actually activated via RF transmission. The lo-jack device then sends out a beacon, which properly equipped police cars use radio direction finding equipment to locate the vehicle. There is no GPS involved in the older lo-jack systems. (Police cars with 4 evenly spaced antennas in a square are generally equipped with the RDF unit).
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On-star is nothing more than a cell phone + GPS. It should be possible to figure out the number scheme and own up expensive luxury cars... "MRS MARTHA.. THIS IS GOD, YOUR DRIVING TOO FAST!" "But I'm stopped" "DON'T ARGUE!"