I don't see anywhere in the Google control panel where you can turn it off. But I'm not seeing anything called "Similar Pages" when I do searches. Where is this?
So you mean if I have some old domain lying around that I've never used, I could create a custom google search engine in under an hour and put that domain to work?
Of course there might have been false positives, but keep in mind police were looking for "a white van" instead of the blue Chevrolet Caprice that was used in the shootings. (Fun exercise: next time you are in a major metro, count the number of white vans.) I bet a list of cars in vicinity of 2 shootings would be in single digits. Just check 'em all out.
The systems, which cost around $25,000 and are made by G2 Tactics, Civica, AutoVu and Remington Elsag Law Enforcement Systems, among others, have been sold mostly to major police departments around the country.
So where is the open source software that does the license plate tracking with commodity hardware? Surely we can beat $25,000 and put this in the hands of nerds everywhere, right?
When the DC sniper was running around killing 10 people in 2002, it crossed my mind that tech like this could have helped catch the killers very quickly. Simply setup license plate monitors at strategic points around the beltway and other highways, then compare the data (which cars were in the vicinity of multiple killings).
The government used this tech to catch people running red lights in Falls Church, VA. How about saving some lives? I wonder if they are using this technology in Indiana to catch the sniper who is on the loose there?
You said it. I run it on dodgeit.com and it hums along quite nicely.
Postfix is awesome "out of the box" and is incredibly flexible when you get fancier and want to inject custom code into the SMTP handshakes, etc.
Just please remember to set "mynetworks_style = host" unless you trust every machine on the same LAN with your mailserver. I've been bitten by that one in a co-lo environment.
>I'm sure you're already aware of this, but your device will be outdated very soon
Yep. But wait there's more. I'm in the DC market, where DirecTV is already delivering locals in MPEG4. But the only MPEG4 receiver DirecTV offers has no DVR capabilities. So I'm stuck with an over-the-air HDTV solution for all my locals, which feed into the new HR10-250. Believe it or not I prefer this to my other HD option, Comcast, whose DVR is TERRIBLE and whose quality on most channels is much much worse than the old MPEG2 I'm currently getting from DirecTV. Comcast's HD does look nice, however.
To make things more complicated, Verizon will roll out FIOS tv in my area sometime real soon (I already have FIOS phone and internet). But guess what? The hardware FIOS TV is using down in their TX trials is the same old crappy Motorolla DVR I currently have from Comcast.
Here's what I'm counting on: DirecTV will offer the MPEG4 DVR for free or real cheap when it is available, since I just bought the HD Tivo. Or the cablecard/Tivo thing I mention above might work out. I'd shell out $500-$1000 for a full-powered Tivo w/HME connected to dual HD MPEG 4 tuners from DirecTV. I don't watch much TV, but what I do matters to me.
I understand DirecTV is switching from Tivo to homegrown DVR stuff sometime in 2006. Does anyone know if there will be a cablecard supporting DirecTV this year? If so, I could just stick 2 DirecTV cablecards in this new tivo and not have to suffer through DirecTV's crappy DVR attempt (yes, I'm pretty confident their homegrown DVR is going to suck).
My HR10-250 is getting installed tomorrow. But I hate how DirecTV is stripping all the cool HME options from their Tivo-powered boxes. So to me this upcoming series 3 Tivo powered by DirecTV would be a killer TV product.
By the way, $600 is NOT the going price for the DirecTV HDTivo if you are a good DirecTV customer, see this thread for details on getting that price down. My cost was more like $200 after rebates and service credits. I'm fully expecting this device to be obsolete within a year, but to me it is worth it for $200.
>I've used web and application RSS readers for years, and email clients are simply a better interface.
Don't think I've ever seen CmdrTaco reply in comments, but I'd love to hear his reasons for this. I've gone the hardcore geeky route with rss2email and also the true standalone desktop aggregator route. What I've settled on is Bloglines, because I use 4 machines in different locations quite frequently. Bloglines simply makes this easiest and maintains state perfectly between all 4. I'm on win2k, XP, and OSX on those 4 machines. The Bloglines notifier extension for Firefox is quite handy as well.
I've been watching more and more IPTV stuff these days--Rocketboom, NerdTV, systm, homestarrunner, etc. Can anyone recommend a good dedicated piece of hardware for watching IPTV stuff on a real TV?
Bonus points if HDTV support is baked in.
But the biggest factor is it has to pass the "wife test". The UI should be simple and intuitive.
Does such a product exist? The Pinnacle Showcenter 200 and D-Link Wireless Media player sound close, but I worry about the usability factor.
From what I've heard XBMC is a great solution, but I want something I can actually buy online or in a store somewhere. I'm more into hacking software than hardware these days.
You should try out bloglines.com. Install the firefox extension for bloglines while you are at it.
For me, it is an easy way to keep tabs on over 100 blogs/sites without having to pull up over 100 different URLs. It is immediately obvious to me on a single page which ones have been updated and I can pick and choose which to read.
I'm a big believer in RSS, hence my site: dodgeit.com
thanks for the plug xtracto, I created and maintain dodgeit.com:-)
We were getting well over 1 million spams a day before we started using DNS blacklists. I'm stunned that the story author is weathering the storm with sendmail. I never could configure that beast. Dodgeit is a postfix shop.
Podcasting? There's no future in it. In fact I didn't just spend a few months of my life developing a new service that allows you to start podcasting using nothing more than a telephone.
>So you can technically do things with the TiVo that other products and open source software can do, it's just incredibly difficult
Actually there is NO open source product that allows you to record the raw MPEG stream as it comes down from the DirecTV satellites. That means with the DirecTV/Tivo combo unit you can watch time-shifted TV with NO loss in quality.
And yes, that is the main reason I'm not using an open-source alternative to tivo.
And if anyone thinks that is not a big deal they probably also think VHS is just as good as DVD.
For me the reason to use apache 1.x with PHP is very simple. That is the only configuration that is supported by ApacheToolbox.
I've done the roll-your-own apache/mod_perl/mod_php/mod_etc.etc.etc... thing before. I'd love to have those hours of my life back.
So if the Apache foundation really cares about evangelizing 2.x why don't they create something as powerful as ApacheToolbox that actually works with 2.x?
Next question: at the front page of that site I can't query the available packages. What gives? Is there a search function that is web accessible? (like search.cpan.org) For example, one nice Perl module I recently started using is MIME::Lite. How can I easily find out if there is a Ruby equivalent to this module?
I've read about Ruby and am eager to try, but CPAN isn't just important to me--it is perhaps the only reason I use Perl.
Not trying to be a pain: I know I can google for this stuff, but aggregating the info here on a slashdot thread is useful to me and perhaps others. And the expert evangelist is ALWAYS superior to Google:-)
>The machine is there to help them get work done, not entertain them.
Right. And you are there to help them get their work done on the machine, not lecture them.
If you are an "IT manager type" and are honestly saying you care about screen savers, I weep for your company.
Block the nasty stuff at the firewall, take away admin rights if people violate policies you provided to them (in written form), and get on with your life. Sheesh.
>Because "podcasting" is just a rehash of internet streaming audio, which has been around for a decade?
Not sure why you would take the time to bash something you clearly haven't tried. You just need to subscribe to a show or two (I use ipodder and enjoy Adam Curry's Daily Source Code). Then listen to a couple of shows while you are away from your computer (important--do this while commuting or walking or something). Any mp3 player will do. Then get back to me.
And I don't own a mac. I use WinXP Pro and an ipod mini for this.
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>The article focuses on the competition and doesn't even mention that Adobe's CEO called Microsoft a $50 billion monopolist.
Adobe's CEO got it wrong. Looks like MSFT's current market cap is over 282 billion so aren't they a $282 billion monopolist?
I don't see anywhere in the Google control panel where you can turn it off. But I'm not seeing anything called "Similar Pages" when I do searches. Where is this?
What browser? what OS? It is working for me here with WinXP and IE 6.0.29 and FF 2.0.
Email me at slashsearch@tarponcreek.com if that is easier than slashdot comments threads for support.
So you mean if I have some old domain lying around that I've never used, I could create a custom google search engine in under an hour and put that domain to work?
:-)
Wait, I guess I can
Hey Freaky - what kind of phone is that? Make and model, por favor :-)
map of the shootings if you are curious.
Of course there might have been false positives, but keep in mind police were looking for "a white van" instead of the blue Chevrolet Caprice that was used in the shootings. (Fun exercise: next time you are in a major metro, count the number of white vans.) I bet a list of cars in vicinity of 2 shootings would be in single digits. Just check 'em all out.
So where is the open source software that does the license plate tracking with commodity hardware? Surely we can beat $25,000 and put this in the hands of nerds everywhere, right?
When the DC sniper was running around killing 10 people in 2002, it crossed my mind that tech like this could have helped catch the killers very quickly. Simply setup license plate monitors at strategic points around the beltway and other highways, then compare the data (which cars were in the vicinity of multiple killings).
The government used this tech to catch people running red lights in Falls Church, VA. How about saving some lives? I wonder if they are using this technology in Indiana to catch the sniper who is on the loose there?
Here are some of his clips from the Daily Show
>Postfix can take a beating..
You said it. I run it on dodgeit.com and it hums along quite nicely.
Postfix is awesome "out of the box" and is incredibly flexible when you get fancier and want to inject custom code into the SMTP handshakes, etc.
Just please remember to set "mynetworks_style = host" unless you trust every machine on the same LAN with your mailserver. I've been bitten by that one in a co-lo environment.
So here it is not surprising that he has chosen to attack Winer rather than evaluate the merit of Winer's statements.
Oh yeah, if you are reading Dave--thanks for RSS and OPML :-)
>I'm sure you're already aware of this, but your device will be outdated very soon
Yep. But wait there's more. I'm in the DC market, where DirecTV is already delivering locals in MPEG4. But the only MPEG4 receiver DirecTV offers has no DVR capabilities. So I'm stuck with an over-the-air HDTV solution for all my locals, which feed into the new HR10-250. Believe it or not I prefer this to my other HD option, Comcast, whose DVR is TERRIBLE and whose quality on most channels is much much worse than the old MPEG2 I'm currently getting from DirecTV. Comcast's HD does look nice, however.
To make things more complicated, Verizon will roll out FIOS tv in my area sometime real soon (I already have FIOS phone and internet). But guess what? The hardware FIOS TV is using down in their TX trials is the same old crappy Motorolla DVR I currently have from Comcast.
Here's what I'm counting on: DirecTV will offer the MPEG4 DVR for free or real cheap when it is available, since I just bought the HD Tivo. Or the cablecard/Tivo thing I mention above might work out. I'd shell out $500-$1000 for a full-powered Tivo w/HME connected to dual HD MPEG 4 tuners from DirecTV. I don't watch much TV, but what I do matters to me.
Man is this complicated.
My HR10-250 is getting installed tomorrow. But I hate how DirecTV is stripping all the cool HME options from their Tivo-powered boxes. So to me this upcoming series 3 Tivo powered by DirecTV would be a killer TV product.
By the way, $600 is NOT the going price for the DirecTV HDTivo if you are a good DirecTV customer, see this thread for details on getting that price down. My cost was more like $200 after rebates and service credits. I'm fully expecting this device to be obsolete within a year, but to me it is worth it for $200.
Don't think I've ever seen CmdrTaco reply in comments, but I'd love to hear his reasons for this. I've gone the hardcore geeky route with rss2email and also the true standalone desktop aggregator route. What I've settled on is Bloglines, because I use 4 machines in different locations quite frequently. Bloglines simply makes this easiest and maintains state perfectly between all 4. I'm on win2k, XP, and OSX on those 4 machines. The Bloglines notifier extension for Firefox is quite handy as well.
There is a free trial, so there is no reason not to kick the tires on this.
I've been watching more and more IPTV stuff these days--Rocketboom, NerdTV, systm, homestarrunner, etc. Can anyone recommend a good dedicated piece of hardware for watching IPTV stuff on a real TV?
Bonus points if HDTV support is baked in.
But the biggest factor is it has to pass the "wife test". The UI should be simple and intuitive.
Does such a product exist? The Pinnacle Showcenter 200 and D-Link Wireless Media player sound close, but I worry about the usability factor.
From what I've heard XBMC is a great solution, but I want something I can actually buy online or in a store somewhere. I'm more into hacking software than hardware these days.
Thanks!
You should try out bloglines.com. Install the firefox extension for bloglines while you are at it. For me, it is an easy way to keep tabs on over 100 blogs/sites without having to pull up over 100 different URLs. It is immediately obvious to me on a single page which ones have been updated and I can pick and choose which to read. I'm a big believer in RSS, hence my site: dodgeit.com
thanks for the plug xtracto, I created and maintain dodgeit.com :-)
We were getting well over 1 million spams a day before we started using DNS blacklists. I'm stunned that the story author is weathering the storm with sendmail. I never could configure that beast. Dodgeit is a postfix shop.
Podcasting? There's no future in it. In fact I didn't just spend a few months of my life developing a new service that allows you to start podcasting using nothing more than a telephone.
Please move along, nothing to see here.
>So you can technically do things with the TiVo that other products and open source software can do, it's just incredibly difficult
Actually there is NO open source product that allows you to record the raw MPEG stream as it comes down from the DirecTV satellites. That means with the DirecTV/Tivo combo unit you can watch time-shifted TV with NO loss in quality.
And yes, that is the main reason I'm not using an open-source alternative to tivo.
And if anyone thinks that is not a big deal they probably also think VHS is just as good as DVD.
I've done the roll-your-own apache/mod_perl/mod_php/mod_etc.etc.etc... thing before. I'd love to have those hours of my life back. So if the Apache foundation really cares about evangelizing 2.x why don't they create something as powerful as ApacheToolbox that actually works with 2.x?
Thanks GnuVince!
:-)
Next question: at the front page of that site I can't query the available packages. What gives? Is there a search function that is web accessible? (like search.cpan.org) For example, one nice Perl module I recently started using is MIME::Lite. How can I easily find out if there is a Ruby equivalent to this module?
I've read about Ruby and am eager to try, but CPAN isn't just important to me--it is perhaps the only reason I use Perl.
Not trying to be a pain: I know I can google for this stuff, but aggregating the info here on a slashdot thread is useful to me and perhaps others. And the expert evangelist is ALWAYS superior to Google
OK Ruby evangelists, after checking out the 37 reasons on the list above I can give you 1 big reason I haven't dived into Ruby yet:
What is the Ruby equivalent of CPAN and why isn't it on this guys list?
>The machine is there to help them get work done, not entertain them.
Right. And you are there to help them get their work done on the machine, not lecture them.
If you are an "IT manager type" and are honestly saying you care about screen savers, I weep for your company.
Block the nasty stuff at the firewall, take away admin rights if people violate policies you provided to them (in written form), and get on with your life. Sheesh.
It is worth pointing out that all of the links in this thread point to Preview Release versions of Firefox, NOT 1.0.
Still - thanks for pointing out the Moox stuff, very cool.
>Because "podcasting" is just a rehash of internet streaming audio, which has been around for a decade? Not sure why you would take the time to bash something you clearly haven't tried. You just need to subscribe to a show or two (I use ipodder and enjoy Adam Curry's Daily Source Code). Then listen to a couple of shows while you are away from your computer (important--do this while commuting or walking or something). Any mp3 player will do. Then get back to me. And I don't own a mac. I use WinXP Pro and an ipod mini for this.