I bought a WD Live the other day, and it's utterly fantastic.
It's small (About the same size as an Apple TV) and uses very little power. It can connect to a Wired network, or you can plug in a USB WiFi adapter. You can also plug a USB Hard Drive or Memory Stick into it and play movies directly off that.
As for networking, it can browse DLNA and Samba shares with a somewhat reasonable interface, and will happily play full bitrate 1080p content.
It seems to play most popular formats (Specifically, it'll handle h264/MKV and Divx/Xvid perfectly).
It also has built in support for Youtube, Live365, and Pandora radio.
There are a few flaws with it, but nothing major.
* Copying via samba *To* the attached hard drive is very slow
* Very occasionally loses lipsync. Can be fixed by pausing it for a second.
* Corrupt/broken files sometimes crash it, and it requires a full power cycle (Turned off at the wall) to fix.
In Australia ISPs tend to not lock you out of your modem. You either purchase outright pay off as part of a contract, but in either case you own it and have full access to it.
(Some ISPs will rent a modem to you as well, but again they still give you full access to it).
Because I currently have three boxes sitting in the corner of my living room taking up space, causing a cable mess, wasting electricity, and just generally being annoying.
Putting them all in the one device makes perfect sense for me, when they are all essentially components of the same system.
That's like saying "Why would I want an email client, twitter client, ipod, *and* telephone in the same device"
Agreed. I don't care in the slightest about any advanced features. What I want in a router.
* 802.11n (duh). * 5+ Gigabit ports * ADSL2+ Modem * Reliable NAT, including basic UPnP port mapping * Software that isn't entirely shit (I'm looking at YOU d-link).
I'm happy to pay $300+ for a reliable router, but it's damned hard to find one even at that price range. D-Links products are notoriously bad. The web interface for the last one I used would only work in IE6. (And specifically only IE6).
When I'm plotting my suicide terrorist schemes to kill the president by blowing up new york using illegally downloaded music and child porn, I use something a little more secure.
In this case, any network outside of Australia is considered "Trusted" for my purposes.
I pretty much just want to get around the whole Australian Governments "We are going to watch everything you do" policy. Specifically, their desire to log every website I visit.
Last thing I want is for the feds to bust my door down because I'm googleing a particular book by Vladimir Nabokov.
I trust SSL/TLS against malicious users, not government level sniffing. I'd almost guarantee that the NSA have copies of most root certificates for the purpose of conducting MITM attacks.
I'm was a time KDE user up to and including version 3.
When KDE4 came out I used it for several months before finally giving up due to severe bugs that made it almost unusable.
Since then I keep trying it under the assumption that they've had time to fix the bugs- but it seems they just keep adding on more unusable features instead of stopping and cleaning up what they've already got.
I'm not a big fan of the gnome desktop, but at least it's stable.
Here in Australia, we tend to have much smaller data allowances and higher prices (Due to higher data costs in Australia; We're very remote).
However competition among ISPs is fierce, and most areas of the country have dozens of different ISPs to choose from. This has lead to a very innovative market.
Finally, something about our internet that is better:P.
Speaking as someone with a mild case of Tourettes, you can't just "Get" it. You're either born with it or not.
However, many people with the faulty genes go through there entire life without noticing the symptoms until they experience a particularly stressful moment- at which point something "breaks" and it becomes a lot more severe.
I cannot possibly fathom a supermarket price scanner burning someone (It's just not possible), however it's possible the girl believed it did, causing her enough psychological stress to trigger the Tourettes.
However, if that was enough to set her off, she was going to get it pretty soon anyway with several years of stressful High School on the horizon.
> Sure, Chrome and Firefox will support it. But can Google get Safari and IE on board?"
They don't have to- they just need to convince Adobe to get on board and they are set. Web Developers will be able to have a Flash fallback without needing to re-encode their videos
NTFS-3G, which should come standard in most distros, should be able to read and write NTFS perfectly. It's considered very stable.
That said, my personal solution to this problem was to use EXT2 and install EXT2IFS on my windows machines. I had a small FAT32 partition on the USB disk with the EXT2 driver installers for Windows and MacOS, so if I ever need to read it on another computer I don't have to download anything.
I think most of us figured out this possibility within 30 seconds of seeing how Gravatar worked.
One solution would be to have a private salt known only to Gravatar and the implementing website. Gravatar could determine the correct salt to use base on the referrer.
Of course this would mean each subscriber would need to be hashed against each salt in the Gravatar database.
In either case, I don't think it's really that big a deal.
So far I've tried several releases of KDE4 and every one of them has been buggy as hell. Constant crashes, graphics glitches, and general random unpolished fuckups.
How about locking down functionality for a few months and focusing on stability? It's gotten so bad I've switched over to Gnome after many, MANY years of being an adamant KDE supporter.
I use DropBox for this between work and home, and it's fantastic.
That said, I don't believe it supports encryption (But it's a commonly requested feature, and they are generally quick to respond to demand so it's probably in the works).
My plan B would be an rsync server sitting in a colo somewhere. I'm sure you could find automated dropbox style clients that would work with it.
We have quotas, but then again so do you- our ISPs are just honest about it.
And no shaping going on here folks (At least with the major reputable ISPs like iiNet and Internode). I can happily pull down 24mbits of not stop goodness till the cows come home.
Or the quota runs out, whichever comes first.
When an app costs a dollar or two, why the fuck would you pirate it? seriously?
I've had an iPhone for a bit over a year and the apps are so well priced it's just not worth the bother to pirate them.
My opinion is that if someone is going to go to the trouble of pirating a $1 app, no force in heaven or hell could make them actually buy it.
Cut the power, seriously?
Cuz there's nothing safer than suddenly losing engine power at 150 kph.
Power steering, breaks, manouverability- all go out the window.
Also, why use GPS for this? That's a surefire way to introduce errors into the system. Why not just hook into the cars existing speedometer?
I've jogged for years, primarily in mid range jogging shoes (around the $100 AUD mark).
At one point I lost my jogging shoes, and jogged for a few months barefoot. I pretty much fucked my knees in the process.
I quickly switched back to a good pair of joggers and my knees have mostly recovered.
Evolution might not have taken into account nikes, but it also doesn't really take into account anything past your reproductive stage- which, naturally, would have been early teens. I will most likely live till im at least 80, and I plan on keeping my knees working for as much of that time as possible. As such, I choose to wear good jogging shoes.
tl;dr- I've sprained my ankle once in about 6 years of jogging, while I fucked my knees to the point where I could barely walk in only a few weeks of going barefoot.
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I bought a WD Live the other day, and it's utterly fantastic.
It's small (About the same size as an Apple TV) and uses very little power. It can connect to a Wired network, or you can plug in a USB WiFi adapter. You can also plug a USB Hard Drive or Memory Stick into it and play movies directly off that.
As for networking, it can browse DLNA and Samba shares with a somewhat reasonable interface, and will happily play full bitrate 1080p content.
It seems to play most popular formats (Specifically, it'll handle h264/MKV and Divx/Xvid perfectly).
It also has built in support for Youtube, Live365, and Pandora radio.
There are a few flaws with it, but nothing major.
* Copying via samba *To* the attached hard drive is very slow
* Very occasionally loses lipsync. Can be fixed by pausing it for a second.
* Corrupt/broken files sometimes crash it, and it requires a full power cycle (Turned off at the wall) to fix.
In Australia ISPs tend to not lock you out of your modem. You either purchase outright pay off as part of a contract, but in either case you own it and have full access to it.
(Some ISPs will rent a modem to you as well, but again they still give you full access to it).
Because I currently have three boxes sitting in the corner of my living room taking up space, causing a cable mess, wasting electricity, and just generally being annoying.
Putting them all in the one device makes perfect sense for me, when they are all essentially components of the same system.
That's like saying "Why would I want an email client, twitter client, ipod, *and* telephone in the same device"
Agreed. I don't care in the slightest about any advanced features. What I want in a router.
* 802.11n (duh).
* 5+ Gigabit ports
* ADSL2+ Modem
* Reliable NAT, including basic UPnP port mapping
* Software that isn't entirely shit (I'm looking at YOU d-link).
I'm happy to pay $300+ for a reliable router, but it's damned hard to find one even at that price range. D-Links products are notoriously bad. The web interface for the last one I used would only work in IE6. (And specifically only IE6).
Exactly.
When I'm plotting my suicide terrorist schemes to kill the president by blowing up new york using illegally downloaded music and child porn, I use something a little more secure.
(Ohai there NSA!)
In this case, any network outside of Australia is considered "Trusted" for my purposes.
I pretty much just want to get around the whole Australian Governments "We are going to watch everything you do" policy. Specifically, their desire to log every website I visit.
Last thing I want is for the feds to bust my door down because I'm googleing a particular book by Vladimir Nabokov.
I trust SSL/TLS against malicious users, not government level sniffing. I'd almost guarantee that the NSA have copies of most root certificates for the purpose of conducting MITM attacks.
This is why I have a VPN
I'm was a time KDE user up to and including version 3.
When KDE4 came out I used it for several months before finally giving up due to severe bugs that made it almost unusable.
Since then I keep trying it under the assumption that they've had time to fix the bugs- but it seems they just keep adding on more unusable features instead of stopping and cleaning up what they've already got.
I'm not a big fan of the gnome desktop, but at least it's stable.
Here in Australia, we tend to have much smaller data allowances and higher prices (Due to higher data costs in Australia; We're very remote).
However competition among ISPs is fierce, and most areas of the country have dozens of different ISPs to choose from. This has lead to a very innovative market.
Finally, something about our internet that is better :P.
Speaking as someone with a mild case of Tourettes, you can't just "Get" it. You're either born with it or not.
However, many people with the faulty genes go through there entire life without noticing the symptoms until they experience a particularly stressful moment- at which point something "breaks" and it becomes a lot more severe.
I cannot possibly fathom a supermarket price scanner burning someone (It's just not possible), however it's possible the girl believed it did, causing her enough psychological stress to trigger the Tourettes.
However, if that was enough to set her off, she was going to get it pretty soon anyway with several years of stressful High School on the horizon.
> Sure, Chrome and Firefox will support it. But can Google get Safari and IE on board?"
They don't have to- they just need to convince Adobe to get on board and they are set. Web Developers will be able to have a Flash fallback without needing to re-encode their videos
I used to do this back in high school. The sysadmin could never figure out how I did it ;p
Unfortunately nowadays so many sites are vhosted that it doesn't work as well anymore.
My Ex Girlfriend sure as hell had a G-spot.
NTFS-3G, which should come standard in most distros, should be able to read and write NTFS perfectly. It's considered very stable. That said, my personal solution to this problem was to use EXT2 and install EXT2IFS on my windows machines. I had a small FAT32 partition on the USB disk with the EXT2 driver installers for Windows and MacOS, so if I ever need to read it on another computer I don't have to download anything.
No no no, Don't give Conroy and the religious nuts behind the Australian 'Clean Feed' any ideas. They've already done enough damage
I think most of us figured out this possibility within 30 seconds of seeing how Gravatar worked.
One solution would be to have a private salt known only to Gravatar and the implementing website. Gravatar could determine the correct salt to use base on the referrer.
Of course this would mean each subscriber would need to be hashed against each salt in the Gravatar database.
In either case, I don't think it's really that big a deal.
Police state, here we come.
So far I've tried several releases of KDE4 and every one of them has been buggy as hell. Constant crashes, graphics glitches, and general random unpolished fuckups.
How about locking down functionality for a few months and focusing on stability? It's gotten so bad I've switched over to Gnome after many, MANY years of being an adamant KDE supporter.
I use DropBox for this between work and home, and it's fantastic.
That said, I don't believe it supports encryption (But it's a commonly requested feature, and they are generally quick to respond to demand so it's probably in the works).
My plan B would be an rsync server sitting in a colo somewhere. I'm sure you could find automated dropbox style clients that would work with it.
We have quotas, but then again so do you- our ISPs are just honest about it. And no shaping going on here folks (At least with the major reputable ISPs like iiNet and Internode). I can happily pull down 24mbits of not stop goodness till the cows come home. Or the quota runs out, whichever comes first.
When an app costs a dollar or two, why the fuck would you pirate it? seriously? I've had an iPhone for a bit over a year and the apps are so well priced it's just not worth the bother to pirate them. My opinion is that if someone is going to go to the trouble of pirating a $1 app, no force in heaven or hell could make them actually buy it.
Cut the power, seriously? Cuz there's nothing safer than suddenly losing engine power at 150 kph. Power steering, breaks, manouverability- all go out the window. Also, why use GPS for this? That's a surefire way to introduce errors into the system. Why not just hook into the cars existing speedometer?
I've jogged for years, primarily in mid range jogging shoes (around the $100 AUD mark).
At one point I lost my jogging shoes, and jogged for a few months barefoot. I pretty much fucked my knees in the process.
I quickly switched back to a good pair of joggers and my knees have mostly recovered.
Evolution might not have taken into account nikes, but it also doesn't really take into account anything past your reproductive stage- which, naturally, would have been early teens. I will most likely live till im at least 80, and I plan on keeping my knees working for as much of that time as possible. As such, I choose to wear good jogging shoes.
tl;dr- I've sprained my ankle once in about 6 years of jogging, while I fucked my knees to the point where I could barely walk in only a few weeks of going barefoot.
I think I'll take the jogging shoes.
I bought a power meter recently and the results astouned me.
My desktop PC uses almost 20 watts of power when turned OFF.
Asus EPU does absolutely nothing (My system runs at around 160watts at idle regardless of whether the EPU is set to performance or efficiency).
A gtx260 consumes 30 watts more at idle than an 8600gts, despite the gtx260 having a much lower idle power rating.
I plan on testing everything in my house to find out where power is being wasted.
Microsoft really just don't get it.
They cannot even begin to hope to compete with Apple and Amazon with such a lousy product.