Yes, but you have to compare apples to apples. The cat-5 guy isn't getting a scanner device for $20, he's just smacking it into place and seeing if it works. Guess -n- check. You CAN do fiber that way. The fact that most fiber people use a $7K OTDR is about as irrelevant to the discussion as most Professional cat-5 installers use a $3K TDR/scanner machine.
A "real" greenlee fiber termination kit is about a kilobuck and a "real" greenlee cat5 termination kit is about a quarter kilobuck. So $20 for fiber termination means you'll be doing about as good of a job on fiber as a guy using a $5 kit would do on cat-5, in other words, a really poor job, but it'll work, at least most of the time, for a while, probably without damaging yourself or other equipment too often...
you need a way to strip insulation, the amateur way is a pocket knife, then you need a get the coating/buffer tube off, again the pocket knife. You "need" a scribe but if time is not money you can get away with a glass cutter or a sharp carbide tool bit from "anything carbide" in the store. I'm thinking $5 for good safety glasses, $5 for a pocket knife, $10 for glasscutter/carbide whatever and salestax. It'll be a tedious pain in the ass, but it'll eventually work. I would never do this at work, where time is money, but as a dare at home, maybe...
I guess that as I'm getting older, the noise level is becoming more important. I'm willing to sacrifice some performance for peace and quiet.
I've found as I get older, the housing situation gets bigger. Server gear next to my head in my teenage bedroom, thats not gonna work. 50 feet away on a different floor in the literal opposite corner of my house? Never heard it at night.
Try to keep it quieter than the clothes dryer, then mount it next to the clothes dryer. My basement dehumidifier is currently the loudest continuously operating electrical device I own and its also... right in front of the basement data closet/shelf/whatever.
At one point I had some 90s era SMP giant boxes that I got surplus which were so loud hearing protection was required (no kidding), so I built a little cave lined with acoustic tiles underneath the basement stairs and put the servers up on bricks in case of basement flooding (which happened a few times, no damage). Sounded like an electric leafblower was running continuously. Also it used about $50 of electricity per month, which I was willing to pay, for awhile.
Noise from the gear is the least of my worries, most normal appliances are louder.
I did something extremely close to this in the 80s for ham radio and electronic test equipment. That was the era when the "big" equipment was being disposed of for $5 at a hamfest. That stuff is all gone now, test gear, even at hamfests, is all tiny little plastic boxes for workbench use. On the other hand, you can buy 10 year old rack mount servers for $100 with $75 shipping, which are almost 1/10th the capability of a tower/desktop that you can get for free, what a fantastic deal (can you tell I'll never go back to racks again at home?)
The "real" way to build it is to make the worlds most narrow bookcase with solid wood sides, no back, some bracing, and a very large braced base. From extensive personal experience I can assure you that pine 2x4 sides oriented correctly can easily hold a R-390, an old HP scope, a offbrand clone of the original HP sinewave generator, a couple shelves, a couple rack mounted very high power (100 pound) power supplies... I had the misfortune of painting it flat black and my mom described it as a "gallows". You can put wheels on it, but be extremely careful as it will be heavy and its probably unrecoverable if tipped more than perhaps 10 degrees. In retrospect I would never move a loaded rack.
I stopped rack mounting at home when it became cheaper, overall, to not rack. It probably costs at least twice as much now as just placing machines on "closet organizer" hardware, or those hardware store "500 pound shelves".
Admittedly I do not home run all my cat-5... I have a VLAN capable switch in more or less each room, or in the basement underneath the room, you get the idea, and after repeated midnight sacrifices to the spanning tree protocol gods, so far so good for many years now. Believe it or not, you can buy small switches that draw less than an amp at 12 volts and have no fan, or at least you could when I built all this stuff. Before the VLAN switches I had plain ole switch switches. And before that, hubs. And before than, 10 meg thinnet (no kidding). And before than, a very abortive attempt at early-to-mid 90s era linux support for arcnet (which never freaking worked, and yes I know all about the special cable impedance, it was a linux side problem with known working hardware). Long runs of cat-5 are too expensive compared to my cheap labor rate at home. Unless you're running 300 foot runs at home on a regular basis its cheaper overall to just buy cables online (for gods sake, don't buy a 10 foot jumper at Best Buy for $50 which is no exaggeration, pay like $3 for it on Amazon or ebay)
The difference between the cheap rooms and the expensive rooms is merely size and windows. If you're holding a tape measure during your honeymoon, as you say, you're doin it wrong...
Some of the fancier cruises (read - no water slides)
The water slide is the most fun a Slashdotter can have on a cruise ship.
Camera phone on the clothing optional sunbathing deck?
On my cruise, for no apparent reason, they took hundreds, maybe thousands of pics of the cruisers, then posted them on the wall and you could buy them for a buck or whatever. Re: the bimodal distribution, some of the college girls were pretty hot, $12 for a calendar's worth isn't all that bad.
They had a very tiny video game arcade, which I thought was hilarious having last set foot inside a video arcade in the 80s.
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
Die off won't help. You need a fundamental societal shift where fear doesn't sell. Damn unlikely to happen anytime soon. I'm sure right about where scarey movies stop selling, roller coasters go away... Or you need something "real" to be scared about instead of fearmongering on TV. Maybe a nice civil war, or ethnic cleansing, or utter economic collapse, or famine, or all 4 at the same time. They're extremely likely in our future; how far in future, who can say.
What MIGHT happen in the short term is the fuddy duddies die off so we no longer have to hear about how Elvis's hips, err, Dungeons and Dragons, err, video games, err, the gangster rap is corrupting the youth and there's this scarey internet thing, but in replacement we'll have to sit thru endless "Gen Y idiots gave away all their privacy on the internet; now they're screwed" and "all big business are always bogey man all the time" and stuff like that.
(I used an ocelot controller back when I was playing with this). Just a few select standalone components.
I'm curious how you trained the ocelot. Also did you consider a monkey? they throw poop, but they can understand more complex commands.
Unfortunately I've found over the decades that Perl programmers for misterhouse are not any better WRT to throwing poop than the monkeys. Especially if you bring up the "python" subject. Or "ruby".
He probably forgot the little (tm) or the URL for the ocelot. Its an expensive device of a class midway between a cheap timer and a cheap X10/Insteon modem hooked up to a commodity linux box running misterhouse. I've never heard anything bad about it, and it has the virtue of being small and low power.
Christmas! My old x10 stuff always makes an appearance around Christmas time
Yesssssss I almost forgot about that. Turns out its pretty convenient to turn all the holiday devices in the entire house on or off simultaneously.
I also did the hilarious "motion sensor sets of the halloween decoration" thing. It gets old after a few days, but then again the holiday is over after a few days, so...
Insteon works alright until one of the devices fails (which happens quite often). Then you have to factory reset everything in the system in order to get it to perform well again.
News to me. Can't happen too often, I must have hundreds of "device" times "years" of operation. It's been hands off perfect so far.
Plus, they included X10 support in insteon devices which can't be disabled.
Depends on end device. Some don't do X10. I guess this is a "read the device datasheet fine print" moment.
I did/do have pretty decent X-10 AC line filtering from my ancient X-10 era.
I think he's expecting the floating fail whale rather than having it sink underneath him. The "authentic dress up" crowd is going to be at the throats of the "just wanna wear my hoodie" crowd. The modern cruisers are going to be pissed off that its amenities are ancient. The traditionalists are going to be pissed off that it doesn't have genuine coal fueled steam engines and has too many lifeboats.
I would not be scared of being on board, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to be surrounded by pissed off people.
Their only hope is theme cruises. "Bubba goes boatin' cruise" where nobody dresses up, and "floating ren fair" where everyone dresses up and uses fake british accents. Mixing those two crowds is not gonna be fun.
I hope they also have dress codes for women so they will wear vintage dresses.
Yes, this is an interesting issue. As I recall the titanic was originally designed for Extreme separation of the classes, it would almost be physically impossible for steerage class and first class to ever see each other. However, the modern trend is for uniclass, with at most a slight variation in rooms which you never spend any time in anyway, as I saw on my honeymoon cruise some years ago.
I predict much heartache, because every walmart shopping, tramp stamp wearing, pork rind munching bubbette is gonna expect she will be in first class, so she's either gonna be disappointed when she spends her cruise in steerage with, perhaps at most, a guided tour of the 1st class digs, or, she's going to be all wound up about having to pack 13 pairs of shoes because clearly the grand dining room is not going to accept thongs and flipflops in its dress code. Or she tolerates all the packing and getting dressed up and goes to the fancy dinner hoping for movie re-enactment scenes where everyone dressed up as much as herself, only to find it overrun by hoodies.
As for the guys, all we want in a cruise ship is bikini suntanning area on the main deck and clothing optional tanning on the upper deck, which unfortunately does not fit the original plans as far as I know. So this will be boring.
My cruise experience showed a bimodal distribution of ages, where about 1/3 where 20-something honeymooners like my wife and myself, and 2/3 were extreme senior citizens. I can see how they needed to wait 100 years for todays oldest cruiser who was just a kid during the original Titanic sinking to have died off.
My wife's previous coffee maker was controlled by misterhouse (the coffee maker has since broken and the new one will not power up on return of AC power without pressing a pushbutton, to my intense annoyance).
If there was an "issue" like a linux kernel panic on the misterhouse, the old coffee maker stayed in its previous state. So its either going to use around 100 watts keeping itself warm continuously all day, or statistically more likely she has a cold coffee maker in the morning. Being linux, this only happened like once per year, if that often. Also had a drive failure, once.
Another tragic occurrence was leaving the fishtank lights on overnight, poor little critters didn't get to sleep that night.
The very first time I wrote perl code to control the outside lights, I somehow screwed up the am/pm but it was pretty obvious and easy to fix. Speaking of writing code, you need to express your needs in perl, which most people can't do, but thats OK because most people can't express their needs in English, or even manage to flip the light switch off when leaving the room, so its never going to be more than a niche project. Most women, heck most people, cannot comprehend how a thermostat works. And thats OK, for the rest of us there is advanced automation.
Those are the only three problems I've had in the past decade of home automation.
Can't figure out from the description if its anything more than the prior art of misterhouse from a decade ago running in Perl on Linux. Is it anything more than that?
The problem with X10 is that it was just a horrible piece of equipment. I had a roommate who played with this stuff all day and the control was unpredictable
When I was still using X10, years and years ago, the "standard" was to send every command three times, one minute apart. Sometimes it still failed anyway.
With Insteon (think X-10 2000 or X-10 debugged) there's two way protocol with handshakes so I can tell if it got the message, and I can poll the device to make sure.
Had an x10 [wikipedia.org] setup for a while (terrible system by the way)
X10 sucks. The "new" (actually about a decade old) Insteon stuff is where its at.
played around with some custom software.
Plain vanilla misterhouse with some perl addons, here.
(and even the lights are more of a novelty than much practical benefit)
Its rapidly nearing a decade now (or is it already 10 years?) that I set up my security sensor lights thingies to turn on at sunset and off at a predetermined time, all depending on work/school schedules for that day of week. I figure I've saved pennies, maybe even dollars, of electricity over the past decade, but the thing I've saved the most is time... My motion sensor lights from garage to house are always and only on when I need them and I never, ever, have to turn them on or off.
I've also been fooling with door sensors and occupancy sensors. If the basement workshop door is closed, and the occupancy sensor says there's no one in there, thats two votes to shut off the lights 5 minutes after providing a verbal warning.
The other thing I did with lights is link them to the garage door sensor.. so opening the garage door turns on my walkway and doorway lights for 10 minutes, iff the sun is down.
In the novelty category, my tropical fish tank lights turn on and off with millisecond-level GPS timed accuracy...
Home automation scales like the internet. Two lamp modules and a perl script is about as useful of an automation system as an "internet" containing exactly two computers. Usefulness scales as some polynomial of number of devices...
OK the greek and roman stuff happened well after 99.999% of human evolution had ironed out all that stuff. They're a lot closer to me than my ancestor 200K yrs ago (or whatever) back when we selected for handedness.
BTW the sinistra business is all about shaking your fren-imes hand with the right hand, holding real tight so he can't get away, then stabbing him in the gut with a dagger held in the left hand.
The monkey-see monkey-do thing is relevant to the pre-historical era. That is a good argument. That gave me an excellent idea of take dead animal carcass flop it on ground hold skinning knife you must point the head the same direction each time, at least that's my experience with cleaning fish. You'd think a CAD kind of guy would be able to gut a fish equally well with its head to the left or right but peculiarly even I always hold with left hand and cut away from my hand which has a certain way of fixing the carcass position. I think the kids could get the general idea of spear chucking in either hand, but animal skinning training is going to have an inherent handed-ness that is going to otherwise confuse the hell out of both kid and adult if you try to flip the mental picture and suddenly the lungs are over here and the guts are over there instead of their "normal" position, or you have to use really weird hand grip positions to properly skin.
cooperation favors same-handedness—for sharing the same tools, for example
I'm struggling here to think of a primitive tool with handed-ness built into it. Anyone?
for example while physical competition favors the unusual. In a fight, for example, a left-hander would have the advantage in a right-handed world.
Doesn't know much about ancient warfare. Good luck running a phalanx or pretty much any massed swords -n- shields combat with some people randomly swapping sword and shield hands. Half your shield protects your buddy to the left, kinda like half of the shield of your buddy to the right partially protects you...
Of course if you're not one of those religious extremist types, the majority of human evolution happened long before ancient warfare kicked in; however, acting as a filter, most lefties would have died out due to the effects of ancient warfare.
Been there read that. Read it for a liberal arts survey holocaust senior year class in school... quite a while ago.
The last two words I'd use would be boring and repititious.
Hard to describe the plans and beliefs of the guy who pretty much ran WWII as boring. I guess if all you pay attention to is the Kardashians and fashion shoes, this wide reaching social geopolitical stuff could be a bit dull, but I found it extremely interesting.
The repetitious stuff, again, is the readers fault. I'm sitting there reading and thinking "this is a pretty shitty WWII textbook" and realizing it was written well before WWII. Its kind of like calling 20000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne from 1870 boring, because everyone knows the history of cold war era submarines and I've seen better modern agitprop movies and books about nuclear subs..
Him being naughty and evil is not an excuse or justification or (good) rationalization for basically making stuff up to make his book look bad and by connection his actions. He makes himself look bad quite well all on his own, by his beliefs and actions without you making stuff up about his very interesting book.
An example of a slightly less inflamatory subject: I'm the opposite of a bible thumper (which has the weird political effect of making me an anti-republican... they kicked me out, I didn't wanna leave...). Objectively it has some pretty decent poetry in it. Aside from the poetry I think its completely full of it, mostly false WRT anything important, and generally has been a net negative on society. If you don't like that, search and replace with any other religious text until it matches your personal dislikes. That dislike of what believers have done and disagreement with their beliefs does not mean I should make stuff up about their book being "unpoetic" in an attempt to make them look bad. They make themselves look bad very well all by themselves.
Under fair use exception for educational purposes I could quote most of, or maybe all of, your post, and there is very little you can do about it. As long as I avoid plagiarism by properly attributing your post to "Urza9814 (883915)" then I'm pretty much all good. Anyone can sue anyone for anything, but its really hard to win a lawsuit against a properly documented quote in an assigned school essay.
If I stored your post on GOOG-Drive and the Mighty GOOG decided to make a feature film out of your post, it seems I've given them permission to do so, but you have not, so things get weird.
Your very example of copyrighted math problems applies directly; think about it; I can copy them into my assigned math homework because of the educational exemption... the mighty GOOG is allowed under this license to grep everyones goog-drive and then sell a collection of copyrighted calculus homework problems... or is it, since I'm not the rights owner?
This reminds me of the periodic epic haxor discovery that if you have physical access to a cisco router and know the "config register hack" then you can pown any router. Its one of those "duh" moments where if you don't have physical security, then you have no security at all.
Or in other words 25 bits. This will unfortunately not stop marketing-math from claiming 24 bit space + another 24 bit space = 48 bits.
This easy violation of #1 above Still requires epic fail of #2 and/or #3 above to be applied, and if you have failed #2 or #3 you don't need to brute force anyway.
Because you need telnet access to haxor the thing, and the telnet MOTD supposedly tells you the MAC, I have absolutely no idea why you'd brute force the thing instead of just a simple expect script and a regex on the resulting log. Look there's the mac right there. No need to check the other 2**25-1 macs.
Stereotypical area of failure for networked home dirs is one user account can have more than one device. I see it at home everyday with my AFS home directories and bizarre behavior when two machines logged in at the same time try to run awesome and firefox at the same time. Not saying GOOG drive will/must fail this way, but I'm sure many GOOG-drive API using devs won't think of it and will find a way to fail, its the hardest problem not mentioned in the article. On an optimistic note, I have a couple android devices now and they all live under the same google account perfectly.
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Yes, but you have to compare apples to apples. The cat-5 guy isn't getting a scanner device for $20, he's just smacking it into place and seeing if it works. Guess -n- check. You CAN do fiber that way. The fact that most fiber people use a $7K OTDR is about as irrelevant to the discussion as most Professional cat-5 installers use a $3K TDR/scanner machine.
A "real" greenlee fiber termination kit is about a kilobuck and a "real" greenlee cat5 termination kit is about a quarter kilobuck. So $20 for fiber termination means you'll be doing about as good of a job on fiber as a guy using a $5 kit would do on cat-5, in other words, a really poor job, but it'll work, at least most of the time, for a while, probably without damaging yourself or other equipment too often...
you need a way to strip insulation, the amateur way is a pocket knife, then you need a get the coating/buffer tube off, again the pocket knife. You "need" a scribe but if time is not money you can get away with a glass cutter or a sharp carbide tool bit from "anything carbide" in the store. I'm thinking $5 for good safety glasses, $5 for a pocket knife, $10 for glasscutter/carbide whatever and salestax. It'll be a tedious pain in the ass, but it'll eventually work. I would never do this at work, where time is money, but as a dare at home, maybe...
I guess that as I'm getting older, the noise level is becoming more important. I'm willing to sacrifice some performance for peace and quiet.
I've found as I get older, the housing situation gets bigger. Server gear next to my head in my teenage bedroom, thats not gonna work. 50 feet away on a different floor in the literal opposite corner of my house? Never heard it at night.
Try to keep it quieter than the clothes dryer, then mount it next to the clothes dryer. My basement dehumidifier is currently the loudest continuously operating electrical device I own and its also... right in front of the basement data closet/shelf/whatever.
At one point I had some 90s era SMP giant boxes that I got surplus which were so loud hearing protection was required (no kidding), so I built a little cave lined with acoustic tiles underneath the basement stairs and put the servers up on bricks in case of basement flooding (which happened a few times, no damage). Sounded like an electric leafblower was running continuously. Also it used about $50 of electricity per month, which I was willing to pay, for awhile.
Noise from the gear is the least of my worries, most normal appliances are louder.
I did something extremely close to this in the 80s for ham radio and electronic test equipment. That was the era when the "big" equipment was being disposed of for $5 at a hamfest. That stuff is all gone now, test gear, even at hamfests, is all tiny little plastic boxes for workbench use. On the other hand, you can buy 10 year old rack mount servers for $100 with $75 shipping, which are almost 1/10th the capability of a tower/desktop that you can get for free, what a fantastic deal (can you tell I'll never go back to racks again at home?)
The "real" way to build it is to make the worlds most narrow bookcase with solid wood sides, no back, some bracing, and a very large braced base. From extensive personal experience I can assure you that pine 2x4 sides oriented correctly can easily hold a R-390, an old HP scope, a offbrand clone of the original HP sinewave generator, a couple shelves, a couple rack mounted very high power (100 pound) power supplies... I had the misfortune of painting it flat black and my mom described it as a "gallows". You can put wheels on it, but be extremely careful as it will be heavy and its probably unrecoverable if tipped more than perhaps 10 degrees. In retrospect I would never move a loaded rack.
I stopped rack mounting at home when it became cheaper, overall, to not rack. It probably costs at least twice as much now as just placing machines on "closet organizer" hardware, or those hardware store "500 pound shelves".
Admittedly I do not home run all my cat-5... I have a VLAN capable switch in more or less each room, or in the basement underneath the room, you get the idea, and after repeated midnight sacrifices to the spanning tree protocol gods, so far so good for many years now. Believe it or not, you can buy small switches that draw less than an amp at 12 volts and have no fan, or at least you could when I built all this stuff. Before the VLAN switches I had plain ole switch switches. And before that, hubs. And before than, 10 meg thinnet (no kidding). And before than, a very abortive attempt at early-to-mid 90s era linux support for arcnet (which never freaking worked, and yes I know all about the special cable impedance, it was a linux side problem with known working hardware). Long runs of cat-5 are too expensive compared to my cheap labor rate at home. Unless you're running 300 foot runs at home on a regular basis its cheaper overall to just buy cables online (for gods sake, don't buy a 10 foot jumper at Best Buy for $50 which is no exaggeration, pay like $3 for it on Amazon or ebay)
The difference between the cheap rooms and the expensive rooms is merely size and windows. If you're holding a tape measure during your honeymoon, as you say, you're doin it wrong...
Every ship I looked at had it on the highest deck. Some have it on lower decks for real?
Some of the fancier cruises (read - no water slides)
The water slide is the most fun a Slashdotter can have on a cruise ship.
Camera phone on the clothing optional sunbathing deck?
On my cruise, for no apparent reason, they took hundreds, maybe thousands of pics of the cruisers, then posted them on the wall and you could buy them for a buck or whatever. Re: the bimodal distribution, some of the college girls were pretty hot, $12 for a calendar's worth isn't all that bad.
They had a very tiny video game arcade, which I thought was hilarious having last set foot inside a video arcade in the 80s.
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
Die off won't help. You need a fundamental societal shift where fear doesn't sell. Damn unlikely to happen anytime soon. I'm sure right about where scarey movies stop selling, roller coasters go away... Or you need something "real" to be scared about instead of fearmongering on TV. Maybe a nice civil war, or ethnic cleansing, or utter economic collapse, or famine, or all 4 at the same time. They're extremely likely in our future; how far in future, who can say.
What MIGHT happen in the short term is the fuddy duddies die off so we no longer have to hear about how Elvis's hips, err, Dungeons and Dragons, err, video games, err, the gangster rap is corrupting the youth and there's this scarey internet thing, but in replacement we'll have to sit thru endless "Gen Y idiots gave away all their privacy on the internet; now they're screwed" and "all big business are always bogey man all the time" and stuff like that.
(I used an ocelot controller back when I was playing with this). Just a few select standalone components.
I'm curious how you trained the ocelot. Also did you consider a monkey? they throw poop, but they can understand more complex commands.
Unfortunately I've found over the decades that Perl programmers for misterhouse are not any better WRT to throwing poop than the monkeys. Especially if you bring up the "python" subject. Or "ruby".
He probably forgot the little (tm) or the URL for the ocelot. Its an expensive device of a class midway between a cheap timer and a cheap X10/Insteon modem hooked up to a commodity linux box running misterhouse. I've never heard anything bad about it, and it has the virtue of being small and low power.
http://www.appdig.com/ocelot.html
Christmas! My old x10 stuff always makes an appearance around Christmas time
Yesssssss I almost forgot about that. Turns out its pretty convenient to turn all the holiday devices in the entire house on or off simultaneously.
I also did the hilarious "motion sensor sets of the halloween decoration" thing. It gets old after a few days, but then again the holiday is over after a few days, so...
Insteon works alright until one of the devices fails (which happens quite often). Then you have to factory reset everything in the system in order to get it to perform well again.
News to me. Can't happen too often, I must have hundreds of "device" times "years" of operation. It's been hands off perfect so far.
Plus, they included X10 support in insteon devices which can't be disabled.
Depends on end device. Some don't do X10. I guess this is a "read the device datasheet fine print" moment.
I did/do have pretty decent X-10 AC line filtering from my ancient X-10 era.
Exactly how superstitious are you?
I think he's expecting the floating fail whale rather than having it sink underneath him. The "authentic dress up" crowd is going to be at the throats of the "just wanna wear my hoodie" crowd. The modern cruisers are going to be pissed off that its amenities are ancient. The traditionalists are going to be pissed off that it doesn't have genuine coal fueled steam engines and has too many lifeboats.
I would not be scared of being on board, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to be surrounded by pissed off people.
Their only hope is theme cruises. "Bubba goes boatin' cruise" where nobody dresses up, and "floating ren fair" where everyone dresses up and uses fake british accents. Mixing those two crowds is not gonna be fun.
I hope they also have dress codes for women so they will wear vintage dresses.
Yes, this is an interesting issue. As I recall the titanic was originally designed for Extreme separation of the classes, it would almost be physically impossible for steerage class and first class to ever see each other. However, the modern trend is for uniclass, with at most a slight variation in rooms which you never spend any time in anyway, as I saw on my honeymoon cruise some years ago.
I predict much heartache, because every walmart shopping, tramp stamp wearing, pork rind munching bubbette is gonna expect she will be in first class, so she's either gonna be disappointed when she spends her cruise in steerage with, perhaps at most, a guided tour of the 1st class digs, or, she's going to be all wound up about having to pack 13 pairs of shoes because clearly the grand dining room is not going to accept thongs and flipflops in its dress code. Or she tolerates all the packing and getting dressed up and goes to the fancy dinner hoping for movie re-enactment scenes where everyone dressed up as much as herself, only to find it overrun by hoodies.
As for the guys, all we want in a cruise ship is bikini suntanning area on the main deck and clothing optional tanning on the upper deck, which unfortunately does not fit the original plans as far as I know. So this will be boring.
My cruise experience showed a bimodal distribution of ages, where about 1/3 where 20-something honeymooners like my wife and myself, and 2/3 were extreme senior citizens. I can see how they needed to wait 100 years for todays oldest cruiser who was just a kid during the original Titanic sinking to have died off.
My wife's previous coffee maker was controlled by misterhouse (the coffee maker has since broken and the new one will not power up on return of AC power without pressing a pushbutton, to my intense annoyance).
If there was an "issue" like a linux kernel panic on the misterhouse, the old coffee maker stayed in its previous state. So its either going to use around 100 watts keeping itself warm continuously all day, or statistically more likely she has a cold coffee maker in the morning. Being linux, this only happened like once per year, if that often. Also had a drive failure, once.
Another tragic occurrence was leaving the fishtank lights on overnight, poor little critters didn't get to sleep that night.
The very first time I wrote perl code to control the outside lights, I somehow screwed up the am/pm but it was pretty obvious and easy to fix. Speaking of writing code, you need to express your needs in perl, which most people can't do, but thats OK because most people can't express their needs in English, or even manage to flip the light switch off when leaving the room, so its never going to be more than a niche project. Most women, heck most people, cannot comprehend how a thermostat works. And thats OK, for the rest of us there is advanced automation.
Those are the only three problems I've had in the past decade of home automation.
Can't figure out from the description if its anything more than the prior art of misterhouse from a decade ago running in Perl on Linux. Is it anything more than that?
The problem with X10 is that it was just a horrible piece of equipment. I had a roommate who played with this stuff all day and the control was unpredictable
When I was still using X10, years and years ago, the "standard" was to send every command three times, one minute apart. Sometimes it still failed anyway.
With Insteon (think X-10 2000 or X-10 debugged) there's two way protocol with handshakes so I can tell if it got the message, and I can poll the device to make sure.
Had an x10 [wikipedia.org] setup for a while (terrible system by the way)
X10 sucks. The "new" (actually about a decade old) Insteon stuff is where its at.
played around with some custom software.
Plain vanilla misterhouse with some perl addons, here.
(and even the lights are more of a novelty than much practical benefit)
Its rapidly nearing a decade now (or is it already 10 years?) that I set up my security sensor lights thingies to turn on at sunset and off at a predetermined time, all depending on work/school schedules for that day of week. I figure I've saved pennies, maybe even dollars, of electricity over the past decade, but the thing I've saved the most is time... My motion sensor lights from garage to house are always and only on when I need them and I never, ever, have to turn them on or off.
I've also been fooling with door sensors and occupancy sensors. If the basement workshop door is closed, and the occupancy sensor says there's no one in there, thats two votes to shut off the lights 5 minutes after providing a verbal warning.
The other thing I did with lights is link them to the garage door sensor.. so opening the garage door turns on my walkway and doorway lights for 10 minutes, iff the sun is down.
In the novelty category, my tropical fish tank lights turn on and off with millisecond-level GPS timed accuracy...
Home automation scales like the internet. Two lamp modules and a perl script is about as useful of an automation system as an "internet" containing exactly two computers. Usefulness scales as some polynomial of number of devices...
OK the greek and roman stuff happened well after 99.999% of human evolution had ironed out all that stuff. They're a lot closer to me than my ancestor 200K yrs ago (or whatever) back when we selected for handedness.
BTW the sinistra business is all about shaking your fren-imes hand with the right hand, holding real tight so he can't get away, then stabbing him in the gut with a dagger held in the left hand.
The monkey-see monkey-do thing is relevant to the pre-historical era. That is a good argument. That gave me an excellent idea of take dead animal carcass flop it on ground hold skinning knife you must point the head the same direction each time, at least that's my experience with cleaning fish. You'd think a CAD kind of guy would be able to gut a fish equally well with its head to the left or right but peculiarly even I always hold with left hand and cut away from my hand which has a certain way of fixing the carcass position. I think the kids could get the general idea of spear chucking in either hand, but animal skinning training is going to have an inherent handed-ness that is going to otherwise confuse the hell out of both kid and adult if you try to flip the mental picture and suddenly the lungs are over here and the guts are over there instead of their "normal" position, or you have to use really weird hand grip positions to properly skin.
cooperation favors same-handedness—for sharing the same tools, for example
I'm struggling here to think of a primitive tool with handed-ness built into it. Anyone?
for example while physical competition favors the unusual. In a fight, for example, a left-hander would have the advantage in a right-handed world.
Doesn't know much about ancient warfare. Good luck running a phalanx or pretty much any massed swords -n- shields combat with some people randomly swapping sword and shield hands. Half your shield protects your buddy to the left, kinda like half of the shield of your buddy to the right partially protects you...
Of course if you're not one of those religious extremist types, the majority of human evolution happened long before ancient warfare kicked in; however, acting as a filter, most lefties would have died out due to the effects of ancient warfare.
It's boring, repetitious,
Been there read that. Read it for a liberal arts survey holocaust senior year class in school... quite a while ago.
The last two words I'd use would be boring and repititious.
Hard to describe the plans and beliefs of the guy who pretty much ran WWII as boring. I guess if all you pay attention to is the Kardashians and fashion shoes, this wide reaching social geopolitical stuff could be a bit dull, but I found it extremely interesting.
The repetitious stuff, again, is the readers fault. I'm sitting there reading and thinking "this is a pretty shitty WWII textbook" and realizing it was written well before WWII. Its kind of like calling 20000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne from 1870 boring, because everyone knows the history of cold war era submarines and I've seen better modern agitprop movies and books about nuclear subs..
Him being naughty and evil is not an excuse or justification or (good) rationalization for basically making stuff up to make his book look bad and by connection his actions. He makes himself look bad quite well all on his own, by his beliefs and actions without you making stuff up about his very interesting book.
An example of a slightly less inflamatory subject: I'm the opposite of a bible thumper (which has the weird political effect of making me an anti-republican... they kicked me out, I didn't wanna leave...). Objectively it has some pretty decent poetry in it. Aside from the poetry I think its completely full of it, mostly false WRT anything important, and generally has been a net negative on society. If you don't like that, search and replace with any other religious text until it matches your personal dislikes. That dislike of what believers have done and disagreement with their beliefs does not mean I should make stuff up about their book being "unpoetic" in an attempt to make them look bad. They make themselves look bad very well all by themselves.
Under fair use exception for educational purposes I could quote most of, or maybe all of, your post, and there is very little you can do about it. As long as I avoid plagiarism by properly attributing your post to "Urza9814 (883915)" then I'm pretty much all good. Anyone can sue anyone for anything, but its really hard to win a lawsuit against a properly documented quote in an assigned school essay.
If I stored your post on GOOG-Drive and the Mighty GOOG decided to make a feature film out of your post, it seems I've given them permission to do so, but you have not, so things get weird.
Your very example of copyrighted math problems applies directly; think about it; I can copy them into my assigned math homework because of the educational exemption... the mighty GOOG is allowed under this license to grep everyones goog-drive and then sell a collection of copyrighted calculus homework problems... or is it, since I'm not the rights owner?
This reminds me of the periodic epic haxor discovery that if you have physical access to a cisco router and know the "config register hack" then you can pown any router. Its one of those "duh" moments where if you don't have physical security, then you have no security at all.
Or in other words 25 bits. This will unfortunately not stop marketing-math from claiming 24 bit space + another 24 bit space = 48 bits.
This easy violation of #1 above Still requires epic fail of #2 and/or #3 above to be applied, and if you have failed #2 or #3 you don't need to brute force anyway.
Because you need telnet access to haxor the thing, and the telnet MOTD supposedly tells you the MAC, I have absolutely no idea why you'd brute force the thing instead of just a simple expect script and a regex on the resulting log. Look there's the mac right there. No need to check the other 2**25-1 macs.
I guess if you are in middle- or high-school, this could be a nice service for storing your homework and such.
Not really. You probably don't have the right to give GOOG permission to:
"publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content"
publicly perform, publicly display and distribute
No amateur pr0n on GOOG drive, unless you're into the exhibitionist stuff too.
I'm mystified why they'd have that in the terms, other than for pissing people off.
Stereotypical area of failure for networked home dirs is one user account can have more than one device.
I see it at home everyday with my AFS home directories and bizarre behavior when two machines logged in at the same time try to run awesome and firefox at the same time.
Not saying GOOG drive will/must fail this way, but I'm sure many GOOG-drive API using devs won't think of it and will find a way to fail, its the hardest problem not mentioned in the article.
On an optimistic note, I have a couple android devices now and they all live under the same google account perfectly.