Just out of interest, would something like a Chromecast solve your problem? Seems to fit the bill, screen mirroring, streaming from UMS, casting from phone apps?
I picked one up on a whim a few months back, plugged it into my receiver, and it works great. Free app called LocalCast will stream from UMS straight to the Chromecast, UMS shows it knows what the Chromecast is and transcodes or encodes media beautifully.
I also discovered I could install Plex on my NAS, which does a similar thing to UMS albeit within its own ecosystem, but it allows me to download to the NAS then stream to the Chromecast with the PC off, which is nice.
The Chromecast also turns the TV on by itself when you start casting to it, which is one less remote to find.
Which open source standard system allows me to schedule a meeting with 5 people and a resource like a room, simultaneously viewing their calendars to find a time when everyone is available? What open source software can I install that gives me that?
What open source program can I install right now that provides me with group calendar, contact and email - not personal calendars or contacts, calendars and contacts stored on the server that can be shared between users? Calendars and contacts and email that sync with multiple devices in real time?
Which open source standard allows me to configure email rules that are executed on the server, from my client, with no access to the server itself? For example, pre-sort mail into folders when received, rather than when my desktop client is available to do it? Again, what program can I install to do this?
There is a big difference between "can be done" and "you can download this program which does what you need."
Yes, there are many protocols and standards that replicate some of the functionality Exchange offers. Yes, there are email clients that are quite mature. But there seems to be nothing in the open source world that comes close to replacing Exchange.
As for not showing your calendar while reading email? Please. View | To-Do Bar | Calendar.
I take pleasure in finding and using open source technologies where they deliver somewhat of an equivalent experience to their commercial counterparts.
But if you think there are LDAP implementations that even come close to the level of control and ability provided by AD, you need to have another look at AD. LDAP isn't going to give you group policy, one of the core uses of AD.
git and SVN are primarily version control tools. I guess some use Sharepoint for version control, but it is really focused on document management, and it's really good at that.
But really the comparison between Exchange and mail standards baffles me. Yes, there is potential in CalDAV / CardDAV with IMAP 4 giving something like Exchange in that you have a mail, calendar and contact system. But development work is almost negligible, and while most web servers come with some implementation of those three technologies, there are basically zero clients that support all three, out of the box, well, and pale in comparison to the functionality of Outlook. Even Android doesn't support CalDAV and CarDAV.
While the open source ideas are there in theory, the actual software is non-existent or poorly implemented.
It's kind of strange to see this discussion about Google being a monopoly, and the comparison to Bell. To me, they are completely opposite. How much do you pay to search on Google? Nothing, you're not a customer, you have no business relationship with them. Bell was a monopoly because it monopolised the market, ie. the group of customers who paid for their product. How is that anything like Google, who gives you search for free?
Rather, Google's customers are their advertisers. Do they monopolise the advertising market? No, not by any stretch. How about online advertising? I don't think so. How about advertising on Google? Well yes, they do have exclusive rights to sell that, but were Yellow Pages a monopolist because they were the only ones who could sell advertising in their directory?
Google do have a great search engine which 80% of the world uses. But since no one pays, the so called search market isn't a market at all.
OK, as someone who has been trying different methods of QoS over the past years, with varying levels of success, mainly to have my VoIP phone rock solid over DSL, I'm very interested in what you're saying.
Is there a reason this approach hasn't been implemented yet? Does it break something? If my router is lying to one my upstream router about its TCP window size, wouldn't that impact both the FTP and video stream?
I have my Kodak ESP 5250 working very well on Fedora with the CUPS driver on Sourceforge. Just unpacked the file and then installed the printer (as a network printer over wifi) using the standard Printers icon in the control panel (I think it was called CUPS Printer Configuration Utility.) Worked first time.
The stuff is black magic, it is something to behold.
I remember once asking my Dad how did radio work... really how does it work... and the satellite engineers response... "white mans magic son, nobody knows.";)
As a musician, I'm going to say you're dead wrong there.
As a musician, aren't you more concerned with getting your sounds out there, into peoples ears? Isn't it better for more people to give away the recordings of your tracks to as many people as possible? As a musician, you wouldn't make any cash in your pocket off CD sales anyway. But the more people who hear your music and like it, the more chance they will buy a ticket to your concert, where you, as a musicican, can make a decent living, no?
Or perhaps you're not a musician, as no musician or artist I know really gives a shit about something like control of a digital track, or money for that matter, they just want to be... acknowledged.
You're starting with nothing, suggesting one thing happens, the result is tested, then another thing happens, etc. I don't think the universe works that way.
Because the universe is so large, there is enough room for many simultaneous events. There is a constant ongoing development process, which continues to this day. Occasionally, it produces something that works. As that particular thing works, it sticks around.
Sure, it's like a lottery. It's like a lottery where you have a ticket to every possible outcome. You're going to win, aren't you?
I'll tell you why. I look around me and I see nature trying new things. A bird just flew into a window. A baby was born with a defect. An ant grew an extra leg.
Nature is constantly trying stuff out. Why is a proton so many times larger than an electron, or whatever? Why? Because that's what worked. Over millions of years, Nature has tried many, many combos. For atoms, one particular combo worked. So it's the one that is left with us today.
We don't know that at the start of time, there were many different proton sizes. Heck, black holes or space-time warps could be creating atoms with strange sized protons right now, but of course, as they don't work, they just die off.
Nature is great at sorting out the cruft. Humans entered the universe late in the game. Much had been tried before then.
By the way, only one human worked too. All humans on the Earth today do in fact share an ancestor. All of us, all races. The genitic DNA difference between you and me, or me and the bloke in the cube in front, is equal to the genetic DNA difference between me and an outback Ethiopian. We are all brothers.
Only one human actually worked out. There were other types in the past, but they didn't work. When we go, Nature will try a different combo, as nature is always trying new combos. One will work.
You're looking at the outcome and saying "it's too hard to get these conditions." Forgetting that nature is constantly producing new contenders. Time is the god that sorts them all out. Start with a million possabilities, end with the one that works, by the process of elimination. Not start immediatly with the final, great, working solution!
Well, okay, so Hitler is trying to involve himself in everything Germany related, but he still relys on the principle of being "simple and effective." He is trying to do everything, but he's doing everything RIGHT. He's making it EASY. He's making it FREE. I dont care if they do take over the world, I would love to live in a world owned by them.
No, what's being demonstrated is that should a number end in 4, it is in fact *not* possible for it to be prime.
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For some reason I don't think the reason for the decreased life expectancy in Zimbabwe has much to do with AIDS, or the flu, or anything other than a brutal dictator called Mugabe.
But a national security that's dependent on a foreign power is insecure. Exceptions can't be made on any basis, even including a hypothetical exclusive source for a useful technology.
There are many, many essential US installations around the world constantly providing information you couldn't otherwise get. The installation in Pine Gap, Australia, provides missile launch monitoring and satellite relay for a part of the world the US has no claim on.
Rather than an exception, this seems to be the rule. There are only certain countries the US will not share technology with.
This Blackberry is also a commerical product. And your government is not dependant upon it. It's just they really, really like them. Other devices provide similar functionality; they could kick the Blackberry habbit if they had to.
I think the argument he is trying to make is that even though you have full access to "open source" code, and even though you can make your modifications, they will not be supported by the vendor; therefore, his logic goes, there is no additional value to making the modifications, you can't roll them out world wide for example.
An IT manager may look at this argument and conclude there is no advantage to open source solutions, in that there is no point having solutions that are not supported. The manager may conclude closed source is a better choice; while no self-modifications can be made, at least the system is supported in its entirety.
At the end of the day, your average IT manager needs to desperately separate him or herself from the technology. Otherwise, they get completely snowed under doing technical work that should have been delegated. When there is an option to pay for support, most will take it. The argument is powerful in that it contends as there is no option for support of changes, so there is no ability to make changes. So why buy open source as opposed to a fully supported Microsoft product?
I think that HHGTTG's humor is mainly in the writing style, is so subtle that it gets completely lost in translation.
I'd put subtle humour and slapstick comedy at different ends of a spectrum. There isn't much translation from English to American English - some transliteration perhaps. It is an accurate geralisation - while not true perhaps for every individual, the American tribe is hovering at the slapstick end. And when you're so used to having a punch line that literally socks you in the nose, then yes, it may be the case that you will miss a great deal of subtelty.
It's Bristish humour, and it's very funny. You don't get it. I'm guessing you're American due to that point. American's generally don't get Bristish humour. You probably piss yourself at slap-stick humour, somebody falling down stairs or getting a pie in the face, but I don't understand it and I don't find it funny at all. Different culture, different expression.
I think the/. geeks "get" HHGTTG because they are quite a sarcastic, smartass bunch, more likley to get a kick from humiliating someone intellectually. And that's the sort of mind set most Bristish have.
As far as I can tell, RIM do have their own network, and the telecommunications companies are starting up their own equivilant networks as well.
The major advantage of Blackberry and other "push" mail solutions is the email will appear on the Blackberry as soon as it is pushed to the unit, as opposed to the unit checking the mailbox every X minutes.
The Blackberry server software is designed to work with Exchange. There are simpler solutions if you only have POP3 mail.
When Exchange recieves a mail, it passes it to the Blackberry Server software. This software connects via the Internet to RIM's central office, or the telecommunications providers office.
Then, depending on what services are available to you, the message is "pushed" to the Blackberry over the mobile phone network. I believe it can go by SMS or MMS, and is just a structured message that either contains the email itself, or a link for the Blackberry to download the message over GPRS.
The biggest dissapointment for me (and the reason RIM is making money) is that you can't seem to connect your own GSM modem to the Blackberry Server software, allowing those messages to be pushed directly from your server. They have to be sent to a third party.
I, for one, would love to know the SMS or MMS message format that triggers the push capability of mobile phones and PDA's, and I would love to have a go at writing a module myself.
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Look, you are probably correct. But please humour me and take that case cover off, and double... no tripple check your heatsink is actually touching the CPU. Check it is secured down tight. Check you have used thermal material.
Basically there is no way that heat sink should be cold. The heat must be going somewhere. If your heatsink is not seated correctly, the heat is going back through the CPU pins to the motherboard, which will go bang some time in the near future.
I know you are probably very skilled and good, but please... just humour me... everybody could make a mistake.
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Just out of interest, would something like a Chromecast solve your problem? Seems to fit the bill, screen mirroring, streaming from UMS, casting from phone apps?
I picked one up on a whim a few months back, plugged it into my receiver, and it works great. Free app called LocalCast will stream from UMS straight to the Chromecast, UMS shows it knows what the Chromecast is and transcodes or encodes media beautifully.
I also discovered I could install Plex on my NAS, which does a similar thing to UMS albeit within its own ecosystem, but it allows me to download to the NAS then stream to the Chromecast with the PC off, which is nice.
The Chromecast also turns the TV on by itself when you start casting to it, which is one less remote to find.
Which open source standard system allows me to schedule a meeting with 5 people and a resource like a room, simultaneously viewing their calendars to find a time when everyone is available? What open source software can I install that gives me that?
What open source program can I install right now that provides me with group calendar, contact and email - not personal calendars or contacts, calendars and contacts stored on the server that can be shared between users? Calendars and contacts and email that sync with multiple devices in real time?
Which open source standard allows me to configure email rules that are executed on the server, from my client, with no access to the server itself? For example, pre-sort mail into folders when received, rather than when my desktop client is available to do it? Again, what program can I install to do this?
There is a big difference between "can be done" and "you can download this program which does what you need."
Yes, there are many protocols and standards that replicate some of the functionality Exchange offers. Yes, there are email clients that are quite mature. But there seems to be nothing in the open source world that comes close to replacing Exchange.
As for not showing your calendar while reading email? Please. View | To-Do Bar | Calendar.
I take pleasure in finding and using open source technologies where they deliver somewhat of an equivalent experience to their commercial counterparts.
But if you think there are LDAP implementations that even come close to the level of control and ability provided by AD, you need to have another look at AD. LDAP isn't going to give you group policy, one of the core uses of AD.
git and SVN are primarily version control tools. I guess some use Sharepoint for version control, but it is really focused on document management, and it's really good at that.
But really the comparison between Exchange and mail standards baffles me. Yes, there is potential in CalDAV / CardDAV with IMAP 4 giving something like Exchange in that you have a mail, calendar and contact system. But development work is almost negligible, and while most web servers come with some implementation of those three technologies, there are basically zero clients that support all three, out of the box, well, and pale in comparison to the functionality of Outlook. Even Android doesn't support CalDAV and CarDAV.
While the open source ideas are there in theory, the actual software is non-existent or poorly implemented.
Calling that fellow an "idiot" was unreasonable.
It's kind of strange to see this discussion about Google being a monopoly, and the comparison to Bell. To me, they are completely opposite. How much do you pay to search on Google? Nothing, you're not a customer, you have no business relationship with them. Bell was a monopoly because it monopolised the market, ie. the group of customers who paid for their product. How is that anything like Google, who gives you search for free?
Rather, Google's customers are their advertisers. Do they monopolise the advertising market? No, not by any stretch. How about online advertising? I don't think so. How about advertising on Google? Well yes, they do have exclusive rights to sell that, but were Yellow Pages a monopolist because they were the only ones who could sell advertising in their directory?
Google do have a great search engine which 80% of the world uses. But since no one pays, the so called search market isn't a market at all.
OK, as someone who has been trying different methods of QoS over the past years, with varying levels of success, mainly to have my VoIP phone rock solid over DSL, I'm very interested in what you're saying.
Is there a reason this approach hasn't been implemented yet? Does it break something? If my router is lying to one my upstream router about its TCP window size, wouldn't that impact both the FTP and video stream?
I have my Kodak ESP 5250 working very well on Fedora with the CUPS driver on Sourceforge. Just unpacked the file and then installed the printer (as a network printer over wifi) using the standard Printers icon in the control panel (I think it was called CUPS Printer Configuration Utility.) Worked first time.
Women have plenty of collective generalisations about men....
I'm going to put forward Cycles on Tap (CoT). I could type a long winded arguement for this term, but I figure if you like it, you'll use it.
Large Hardon Collision?
i'd just like to add, in my first post to /. in a long time, "what the f?" boom tish.
Well done to the whole team - awesome chutes.
"They're making billions upon billions of dollars," he says. "And when this car sells, that'll go down -- to low billions upon billions."
I like this kids thinking. He seems to have condensed the entire issue into a soundbite, and it's accurate.
He has faced the first major hurdle in winning the war that needs to be fought: know your enemy.
Or perhaps you're not a musician, as no musician or artist I know really gives a shit about something like control of a digital track, or money for that matter, they just want to be... acknowledged.
It's not piracy, it's publicity!
Because the universe is so large, there is enough room for many simultaneous events. There is a constant ongoing development process, which continues to this day. Occasionally, it produces something that works. As that particular thing works, it sticks around.
Sure, it's like a lottery. It's like a lottery where you have a ticket to every possible outcome. You're going to win, aren't you?
I'll tell you why. I look around me and I see nature trying new things. A bird just flew into a window. A baby was born with a defect. An ant grew an extra leg.
Nature is constantly trying stuff out. Why is a proton so many times larger than an electron, or whatever? Why? Because that's what worked. Over millions of years, Nature has tried many, many combos. For atoms, one particular combo worked. So it's the one that is left with us today.
We don't know that at the start of time, there were many different proton sizes. Heck, black holes or space-time warps could be creating atoms with strange sized protons right now, but of course, as they don't work, they just die off.
Nature is great at sorting out the cruft. Humans entered the universe late in the game. Much had been tried before then.
By the way, only one human worked too. All humans on the Earth today do in fact share an ancestor. All of us, all races. The genitic DNA difference between you and me, or me and the bloke in the cube in front, is equal to the genetic DNA difference between me and an outback Ethiopian. We are all brothers.
Only one human actually worked out. There were other types in the past, but they didn't work. When we go, Nature will try a different combo, as nature is always trying new combos. One will work.
You're looking at the outcome and saying "it's too hard to get these conditions." Forgetting that nature is constantly producing new contenders. Time is the god that sorts them all out. Start with a million possabilities, end with the one that works, by the process of elimination. Not start immediatly with the final, great, working solution!
Well, okay, so Hitler is trying to involve himself in everything Germany related, but he still relys on the principle of being "simple and effective." He is trying to do everything, but he's doing everything RIGHT. He's making it EASY. He's making it FREE. I dont care if they do take over the world, I would love to live in a world owned by them.
No, what's being demonstrated is that should a number end in 4, it is in fact *not* possible for it to be prime.
For some reason I don't think the reason for the decreased life expectancy in Zimbabwe has much to do with AIDS, or the flu, or anything other than a brutal dictator called Mugabe.
Rather than an exception, this seems to be the rule. There are only certain countries the US will not share technology with.
This Blackberry is also a commerical product. And your government is not dependant upon it. It's just they really, really like them. Other devices provide similar functionality; they could kick the Blackberry habbit if they had to.
An IT manager may look at this argument and conclude there is no advantage to open source solutions, in that there is no point having solutions that are not supported. The manager may conclude closed source is a better choice; while no self-modifications can be made, at least the system is supported in its entirety.
At the end of the day, your average IT manager needs to desperately separate him or herself from the technology. Otherwise, they get completely snowed under doing technical work that should have been delegated. When there is an option to pay for support, most will take it. The argument is powerful in that it contends as there is no option for support of changes, so there is no ability to make changes. So why buy open source as opposed to a fully supported Microsoft product?
Very smart implication, I think anyway.
I think the /. geeks "get" HHGTTG because they are quite a sarcastic, smartass bunch, more likley to get a kick from humiliating someone intellectually. And that's the sort of mind set most Bristish have.
PS. I'm an Aussie.
The major advantage of Blackberry and other "push" mail solutions is the email will appear on the Blackberry as soon as it is pushed to the unit, as opposed to the unit checking the mailbox every X minutes.
The Blackberry server software is designed to work with Exchange. There are simpler solutions if you only have POP3 mail.
When Exchange recieves a mail, it passes it to the Blackberry Server software. This software connects via the Internet to RIM's central office, or the telecommunications providers office.
Then, depending on what services are available to you, the message is "pushed" to the Blackberry over the mobile phone network. I believe it can go by SMS or MMS, and is just a structured message that either contains the email itself, or a link for the Blackberry to download the message over GPRS.
The biggest dissapointment for me (and the reason RIM is making money) is that you can't seem to connect your own GSM modem to the Blackberry Server software, allowing those messages to be pushed directly from your server. They have to be sent to a third party.
I, for one, would love to know the SMS or MMS message format that triggers the push capability of mobile phones and PDA's, and I would love to have a go at writing a module myself.
Basically there is no way that heat sink should be cold. The heat must be going somewhere. If your heatsink is not seated correctly, the heat is going back through the CPU pins to the motherboard, which will go bang some time in the near future.
I know you are probably very skilled and good, but please... just humour me... everybody could make a mistake.