I use the same cameras (IP cameras are much more useful than USB/PC attached ones), but instead of wget, I use the annoyingly-awkward-to-configure zoneminder which is a web-based (php/mysql) motion-detection program.
I get about 4fps from the dlink cameras (using/video.cgi) and would recommend zoneminder when you have a spare server with lots of memory. Disk space is not so important though as it only saves the frames that contain motion.
It was very nice when I was on holiday recently to be able to check up on home and see that nothing whatsoever happened in my house when I was away. I am running it on my file server - an AMD 3000+ w/ 1GB RAM and the 5 min load average runs about 0.1
One thing to consider is the opinion of CENTR, The European TLD registry union, who obviously are not American, but regardless are opposed to the ITU-T taking control over ICANN. Their opinion on this ruling is important and as follows (cut from theregister article today)
CENTR - an organisation representing a large number of country-code domains - has responded to the US government's declaration. In a cautious welcome, it agreed that the root files needed to be run in a neutral manner and welcomed its support for ICANN, but pushed that ICANN should focus only on its "core function and limited remit".
Disingenuously, CENTR also says that the stated approach to be taken by the US government "de-politicises the role of the Root Servers and empowers the relevant local Internet Registries and the respective Government to once again". As representative for country-code domains, CENTR will be delighted by the US government's statement that it considers different countries as having complete rights over their own country domain.
I had been looking into the arguments for WSIS against ITU-T and ICANN and have to agree with CENTR that both need vast improvement, but the WSIS in November might have been detrimental due to countries choosing sovereignty over stability. This at least throws a spanner in the works, allowing a bit more stability until a real alternative to ICANN/ITU-T (and now the US DoC) is worked out.
They already have these at London's Heathrow as I recently had to go through one. Every Nth person in the line had to go through. They take you to a seperate are which is blocked off, make you lift up your arms and then move, facing three different directions. There was one operator and the screen was blocked off. The operator is always the gender of the person being scanned. Still I felt very offended for two reasons. First, even though it was enclosed it still made me feel exposed and my personal space violated, second, any questions I asked the operator with regards to their data storage, or if I could see the images that had been made were met with ignorance and my questions were ignored. However, turning down a scan you would probably get a strip search which would be even worse. I disliked airplane security checks before, but now it is incredibly annoying.
I looked into this once, but unfortunately for those phone lines and for charging SMSes, the phone company takes a cut of about 40-50%, so unless there are huge profit margins which can soak that up, it is unfortunately not viable for the majority of circumstances. Maximum transaction values in the UK only go up to about GBP 5 I think (which is about the cost of an average cinema ticket near me).
if you make a new folder under Inbox in mozilla, it will create a new mbox file in your profile for that folder. I have my mail split into Inbox, System and Support for a few of my roles, each of those can be created and then overwritten with one of your split mbox files perhaps? I have done something similiar in the past after corrupting my mozilla install. If you dont mind merging things you could always do cat *.mbox > master.mbox
(not meaning to sound rude/pushy at all, just offering my experience as I spent quite a bit of time standardising older mboxes into mozilla)
you can in mozilla mail (and I assume thunderbird) but it is quite bastardised... you have to create a new mail account for that mail (eg; 'archive1') and fill in junk user details. Next you need to get your old.mbox and copy it over Inbox in your mail folder. Eg; for me it is:
~/.mozilla/default/lwy03rk7.slt/Mail/somesmtpserve r.com/
You need to overwrite Inbox with your inbox.mbox, and then Sent, Drafts, Trash, etc. with other mbox files. The.msf files in there are mozilla's caching information for displaying your mbox files. I am sure there are some programs out there that will do this for you, but at the end of the day so long as you stay in an open format then that is all that matters.
The TV license fee justifies downloading UK TV (and the BBC seem to have no problem with this). My (from the UK) downloads are like this each week:
From USA:
Simpsons
Malcolm in the Middle
South Park (when its on)
Family Guy (when it starts up again)
From Japan:
Naruto
Bleach
From UK:
BBC Documentaries that I missed
I already have most major series' such as Red Dwarf, The Office, Ali G, Father Ted, Hitchhikers Guide, League of Gentlemen, etc. and get more when more come out for them. These all go onto a big file server which is shared over with my mythtv box on my nice big TV, so I can watch the newest TV from around the world whilst sitting in comfort, eating my dinner. Mythtv runs on this as well so I dont have to download much UK TV as it gets archived on the myth box.
Virginia state recently passed a ban on lowriding trousers/pants, preventing the show of boxer shorts/underwear. See yesterday's US news for more info, carried by Fark and others.
Though a lot of online casinos do that*, not all do that and it is somewhat unfair to lump all of them in as deserving of the dDoSes.
Some interesting stats about online gambling:
- Those dDoSes hit 2GB/sec. More than Energis' internal network can cope with.
- The primary dDoSers (some russian guys) were caught and arrested last year, there was a/. story about it too
- The mafia have been involved with some US sites, but I know of at least one that got shut down when the entire board of the company got arrested
- The WTO is trying to make the US ban on Internet gambling illegal
- The biggest online casino is israeli-founded/based www.888.com who do multiple billion per month in turnover. You can get house win from that by taking off about 98-99.5%. (turnover counts every value of every spin of a slot machine or every wager, remove the odds of winning % for the house win)
In conclusion, the world does not have the same laws as the US (gambling is perfectly fine in the UK for instance) and some people run responsible gambling sites and still have to put up with all the tiring crap from crackers and dDoSers.
* technically it is their affiliates who do it through affiliate programs, but same difference, they are all guilty and could crack down on it if they wanted.
according to freedb (http://www.freedb.org/freedb_stats_server.php) there are 1.5 Million CDs listed. Assuming 9 tracks per CD since I have no benchmark and singles would take down the size of albums, that would come out at 13.5 million MP3s.
at something like 3.5 MB each track (probably too small an estimate) then that would require: 45 TB of storage.
at $200 per 300GB HDD (too lazy to look up the actual price), without redundancy that would work out at 150 drives = $30000 of storage.
I wonder if people will ever come up with a replacement for the floppy disk icon when saving a file in most programs... it will be amusing explaining to kids of the future what that strange blue square icon on the save button is. Is this the first obsolete bit of tech that has been cemented into part of the general computer consciousness?
exactly, mostly crappy sites that gives you another representation of stats for a different type of user. Their mozilla support is very crappy though but I find it suitable for 100-(sum of IE) = rough alternate browser% share.
google is generally the definitive browser reference anyway but it all depends upon your target audience
for some other good browser stats. See the decline of netscape as these stats go back to the year 2000. They represent a more generic class of user (home users who visit websites with crappy counters) than most stats too so I find using these stats useful when evaluating target audiences for generic sites.
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Borough of Sutton, London, UK. The 70% figure is a guess from me about the town centre though so dont quote me apart from annecdotal evidence. The same time this happened, there was a large-scale business sponsored continual cleanup as well which got rid of what was there before, and instead of coming back within a few days like normal the combination seemed to crush the spirits of most casual taggers.
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They did that here in the UK in my town. The next step was to get all the schools to give the police photocopies of every single schoolbook that has got any sort of doodles on it. Lo and behold, almost every kid under 18 who had done grafitti had tagged all their schoolbooks and the police were able to tie most tags down to kids by name, and either give them warnings or punishments. The best bit was most actually stopped and grafitti dropped by at least 70%
In the UK (london) in the late 90s, a man set off bombs in soho and brixton. They caught him because he was the only person who appeared on security cameras in both places around the time of the bombing. His house was filled with evidence and he was planning many more bombings which were halted because of the cameras. (of course this is from my distant tv-watching memory so I may be fuzzy if someone wants to verify. To help your googling, he was trying to start a 'race war').
The key to cameras is responsible laws governing their use. The UK's data protection act is key here and I cant believe the US is still without an equivelent. All footage (and data associated with a person) must be removed within 6 months unless there is either a continued relationship (in the case of a business) or legal request to maintain it. If you want to set up a camera to point at a public area, you must register it with the national list, and then anybody who requests any footage must be given a copy if it is available (for a reasonable fee). Any person in the UK can therefore get footage from any fixed camera in the UK that points at a public place if they want/need it. Any data associated with a person must be shared at their request (for a fee of up to 15GBP if desired) and they are allowed to change any data that is stored about them but is not correct.
Screw cars... think supercomputing cluster. VIA have been talking about a dual CPU mini-itx board with 2ghz (esther core) processors for a while now. I'll leave finding info about them up to you (mini-itx.com and via's site for starters)
You can get 1U cases which let you put in 2 mini-itx boards (there are quite a few if you [g|fr]oogle.
Here are some specs for a rack full of them... 336GHz total power. 84GB RAM, up to 22.5 TB HDD space, total power usage < 15kW (60W per machine).
ttl per machine: 200+2(200)+2(120)+2(250)=$1340 42 machines=$56280 + rack bits=$56530
in GBP=30584 (I am British)
that's a spicy-a meat-a-ball.. still 22TB and 336Ghz cluster... hmmmm... Might get 5fps on Doom 3!
15kW/h To be extra geeky... cost per day to run in London, England (electricity only, excluding air conditioning)... 15kW/h per hour * 24 = 360kW/h per day * 8p per unit + VAT = 2880 + 504 = GBP 33.84 per day = GBP 12351.60 per year.... ouch, that's a new rack every 3 years if you leave it turned off though
Damn I cant wait for the 2ghz dual cpu mini-itx boards... and a bunch of rich, obscure relatives to pass on and give me money >:)
And since this is slashdot... cue the 50 posts to correct and nit pick this post since it contains (bad) maths.
If you are using the same neighbourhood transformer you can try ethernet over powerlines (and take out all the ham radio people nearby). Hopefully neighbours in between wont cause too much disturbance by using microwaves, TVs, etc.
There are off-the-shelf components you can purchase which will get a peak of about 14Mbit/s, but are greatly affected by distance.
I investigated this about a year ago as I was in a similiar situation. I learned that though most of the adaptors are sold in the US, if you ask you can get 220V adaptors instead which work just as well (though slightly differently due to a higher frequency). I heard a lot of things from a lot of people who I bombarded with email questions, but in the end the summarised response was simply 'it will probably work but only if you are on the same transformer'. Though a few companies (who I forget now) offered us money back if it didnt work, we moved before it became a true issue. I have completely forgotten the names of any of the companies involved and a quick google search is now plagued by SEO-scum.
I would prefer that we spend it on Space exploration, or even better, fund Open Source development to the tune of 500M euros... that would give some nice returns for the planet.
To be fair though, it should probably be spent on the 10 ex-soviet (and other) countries that are joining the EU in May... perhaps a moving in present (50Million euros investment in the infrastructure of each country would go a long way since their average income is relatively low).
Step 6 cry as you come back into the UK and pay 2.5% tax on electronic goods, and then 17.5% VAT on top of that to the boys in customs and excise. Best not look too guilty if you walk through the green 'nothing to declare' area (or say it was a gift or something, I am unfamiliar with the law in this respect).
Step 4... shout DAMNIT as you realise that the power adaptor does not work so you need a new plug adaptor (cheap but inconvienient).
Step 5... shout DAMNIT even louder when you try to type something and discover that the punctuation keys are completely different on a US keyboard to a UK keyboard. You can get round this with mappings but it is very annoying (not $1000 annoying but annoying nonetheless). If you were not aware of this already, then be aware as you will need to re-learn a few keys, and it can be very annoying if you are switching between US-UK computers/keyboards.
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I use the same cameras (IP cameras are much more useful than USB/PC attached ones), but instead of wget, I use the annoyingly-awkward-to-configure zoneminder which is a web-based (php/mysql) motion-detection program.
/video.cgi) and would recommend zoneminder when you have a spare server with lots of memory. Disk space is not so important though as it only saves the frames that contain motion.
I get about 4fps from the dlink cameras (using
It was very nice when I was on holiday recently to be able to check up on home and see that nothing whatsoever happened in my house when I was away. I am running it on my file server - an AMD 3000+ w/ 1GB RAM and the 5 min load average runs about 0.1
oops - meant to cite the reg article too... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/bush_net_p olicy/
CENTR - an organisation representing a large number of country-code domains - has responded to the US government's declaration. In a cautious welcome, it agreed that the root files needed to be run in a neutral manner and welcomed its support for ICANN, but pushed that ICANN should focus only on its "core function and limited remit".
Disingenuously, CENTR also says that the stated approach to be taken by the US government "de-politicises the role of the Root Servers and empowers the relevant local Internet Registries and the respective Government to once again". As representative for country-code domains, CENTR will be delighted by the US government's statement that it considers different countries as having complete rights over their own country domain.
I had been looking into the arguments for WSIS against ITU-T and ICANN and have to agree with CENTR that both need vast improvement, but the WSIS in November might have been detrimental due to countries choosing sovereignty over stability. This at least throws a spanner in the works, allowing a bit more stability until a real alternative to ICANN/ITU-T (and now the US DoC) is worked out.
They already have these at London's Heathrow as I recently had to go through one. Every Nth person in the line had to go through. They take you to a seperate are which is blocked off, make you lift up your arms and then move, facing three different directions. There was one operator and the screen was blocked off. The operator is always the gender of the person being scanned. Still I felt very offended for two reasons. First, even though it was enclosed it still made me feel exposed and my personal space violated, second, any questions I asked the operator with regards to their data storage, or if I could see the images that had been made were met with ignorance and my questions were ignored. However, turning down a scan you would probably get a strip search which would be even worse. I disliked airplane security checks before, but now it is incredibly annoying.
I looked into this once, but unfortunately for those phone lines and for charging SMSes, the phone company takes a cut of about 40-50%, so unless there are huge profit margins which can soak that up, it is unfortunately not viable for the majority of circumstances. Maximum transaction values in the UK only go up to about GBP 5 I think (which is about the cost of an average cinema ticket near me).
if you make a new folder under Inbox in mozilla, it will create a new mbox file in your profile for that folder. I have my mail split into Inbox, System and Support for a few of my roles, each of those can be created and then overwritten with one of your split mbox files perhaps? I have done something similiar in the past after corrupting my mozilla install. If you dont mind merging things you could always do cat *.mbox > master.mbox
(not meaning to sound rude/pushy at all, just offering my experience as I spent quite a bit of time standardising older mboxes into mozilla)
you can in mozilla mail (and I assume thunderbird) but it is quite bastardised... you have to create a new mail account for that mail (eg; 'archive1') and fill in junk user details. Next you need to get your old .mbox and copy it over Inbox in your mail folder. Eg; for me it is:
~/.mozilla/default/lwy03rk7.slt/Mail/somesmtpserve r.com/
You need to overwrite Inbox with your inbox.mbox, and then Sent, Drafts, Trash, etc. with other mbox files. The .msf files in there are mozilla's caching information for displaying your mbox files. I am sure there are some programs out there that will do this for you, but at the end of the day so long as you stay in an open format then that is all that matters.
The TV license fee justifies downloading UK TV (and the BBC seem to have no problem with this). My (from the UK) downloads are like this each week:
From USA:
Simpsons
Malcolm in the Middle
South Park (when its on)
Family Guy (when it starts up again)
From Japan:
Naruto
Bleach
From UK:
BBC Documentaries that I missed
I already have most major series' such as Red Dwarf, The Office, Ali G, Father Ted, Hitchhikers Guide, League of Gentlemen, etc. and get more when more come out for them. These all go onto a big file server which is shared over with my mythtv box on my nice big TV, so I can watch the newest TV from around the world whilst sitting in comfort, eating my dinner. Mythtv runs on this as well so I dont have to download much UK TV as it gets archived on the myth box.
Virginia state recently passed a ban on lowriding trousers/pants, preventing the show of boxer shorts/underwear. See yesterday's US news for more info, carried by Fark and others.
Though a lot of online casinos do that*, not all do that and it is somewhat unfair to lump all of them in as deserving of the dDoSes.
/. story about it too
Some interesting stats about online gambling:
- Those dDoSes hit 2GB/sec. More than Energis' internal network can cope with.
- The primary dDoSers (some russian guys) were caught and arrested last year, there was a
- The mafia have been involved with some US sites, but I know of at least one that got shut down when the entire board of the company got arrested
- The WTO is trying to make the US ban on Internet gambling illegal
- The biggest online casino is israeli-founded/based www.888.com who do multiple billion per month in turnover. You can get house win from that by taking off about 98-99.5%. (turnover counts every value of every spin of a slot machine or every wager, remove the odds of winning % for the house win)
In conclusion, the world does not have the same laws as the US (gambling is perfectly fine in the UK for instance) and some people run responsible gambling sites and still have to put up with all the tiring crap from crackers and dDoSers.
* technically it is their affiliates who do it through affiliate programs, but same difference, they are all guilty and could crack down on it if they wanted.
according to freedb (http://www.freedb.org/freedb_stats_server.php) there are 1.5 Million CDs listed. Assuming 9 tracks per CD since I have no benchmark and singles would take down the size of albums, that would come out at 13.5 million MP3s.
at something like 3.5 MB each track (probably too small an estimate) then that would require: 45 TB of storage.
at $200 per 300GB HDD (too lazy to look up the actual price), without redundancy that would work out at 150 drives = $30000 of storage.
I wonder if people will ever come up with a replacement for the floppy disk icon when saving a file in most programs... it will be amusing explaining to kids of the future what that strange blue square icon on the save button is. Is this the first obsolete bit of tech that has been cemented into part of the general computer consciousness?
knackered = broken in the context of tired (british slang).
My car is knackered = my car is broken from overuse
I am knackered = I am so tired that I am broken
google is generally the definitive browser reference anyway but it all depends upon your target audience
for some other good browser stats. See the decline of netscape as these stats go back to the year 2000. They represent a more generic class of user (home users who visit websites with crappy counters) than most stats too so I find using these stats useful when evaluating target audiences for generic sites.
Borough of Sutton, London, UK. The 70% figure is a guess from me about the town centre though so dont quote me apart from annecdotal evidence. The same time this happened, there was a large-scale business sponsored continual cleanup as well which got rid of what was there before, and instead of coming back within a few days like normal the combination seemed to crush the spirits of most casual taggers.
They did that here in the UK in my town. The next step was to get all the schools to give the police photocopies of every single schoolbook that has got any sort of doodles on it. Lo and behold, almost every kid under 18 who had done grafitti had tagged all their schoolbooks and the police were able to tie most tags down to kids by name, and either give them warnings or punishments. The best bit was most actually stopped and grafitti dropped by at least 70%
In the UK (london) in the late 90s, a man set off bombs in soho and brixton. They caught him because he was the only person who appeared on security cameras in both places around the time of the bombing. His house was filled with evidence and he was planning many more bombings which were halted because of the cameras. (of course this is from my distant tv-watching memory so I may be fuzzy if someone wants to verify. To help your googling, he was trying to start a 'race war').
The key to cameras is responsible laws governing their use. The UK's data protection act is key here and I cant believe the US is still without an equivelent. All footage (and data associated with a person) must be removed within 6 months unless there is either a continued relationship (in the case of a business) or legal request to maintain it. If you want to set up a camera to point at a public area, you must register it with the national list, and then anybody who requests any footage must be given a copy if it is available (for a reasonable fee). Any person in the UK can therefore get footage from any fixed camera in the UK that points at a public place if they want/need it. Any data associated with a person must be shared at their request (for a fee of up to 15GBP if desired) and they are allowed to change any data that is stored about them but is not correct.
Screw cars... think supercomputing cluster. VIA have been talking about a dual CPU mini-itx board with 2ghz (esther core) processors for a while now. I'll leave finding info about them up to you (mini-itx.com and via's site for starters)
You can get 1U cases which let you put in 2 mini-itx boards (there are quite a few if you [g|fr]oogle.
Here are some specs for a rack full of them...
336GHz total power. 84GB RAM, up to 22.5 TB HDD space, total power usage < 15kW (60W per machine).
Costs:
fixed:
42U rack: $150
Cables/Power supplies: ~$100
per-unit:
case: $200
mobo (guess): $200
ram (512GB*2): $120
HDD (300GB): $250
ttl per machine: 200+2(200)+2(120)+2(250)=$1340
42 machines=$56280
+ rack bits=$56530
in GBP=30584 (I am British)
that's a spicy-a meat-a-ball.. still 22TB and 336Ghz cluster... hmmmm... Might get 5fps on Doom 3!
15kW/h
To be extra geeky... cost per day to run in London, England (electricity only, excluding air conditioning)...
15kW/h per hour * 24 = 360kW/h per day
* 8p per unit + VAT = 2880 + 504
= GBP 33.84 per day
= GBP 12351.60 per year.... ouch, that's a new rack every 3 years if you leave it turned off though
Damn I cant wait for the 2ghz dual cpu mini-itx boards... and a bunch of rich, obscure relatives to pass on and give me money >:)
And since this is slashdot... cue the 50 posts to correct and nit pick this post since it contains (bad) maths.
If you are using the same neighbourhood transformer you can try ethernet over powerlines (and take out all the ham radio people nearby). Hopefully neighbours in between wont cause too much disturbance by using microwaves, TVs, etc.
There are off-the-shelf components you can purchase which will get a peak of about 14Mbit/s, but are greatly affected by distance.
I investigated this about a year ago as I was in a similiar situation. I learned that though most of the adaptors are sold in the US, if you ask you can get 220V adaptors instead which work just as well (though slightly differently due to a higher frequency). I heard a lot of things from a lot of people who I bombarded with email questions, but in the end the summarised response was simply 'it will probably work but only if you are on the same transformer'. Though a few companies (who I forget now) offered us money back if it didnt work, we moved before it became a true issue. I have completely forgotten the names of any of the companies involved and a quick google search is now plagued by SEO-scum.
Yay about 1 euro each :)
I would prefer that we spend it on Space exploration, or even better, fund Open Source development to the tune of 500M euros... that would give some nice returns for the planet.
To be fair though, it should probably be spent on the 10 ex-soviet (and other) countries that are joining the EU in May... perhaps a moving in present (50Million euros investment in the infrastructure of each country would go a long way since their average income is relatively low).
The allowance per trip is just GBP 145 according to the London Heathrow website.
replying to myself as I forgot...
Step 6
cry as you come back into the UK and pay 2.5% tax on electronic goods, and then 17.5% VAT on top of that to the boys in customs and excise. Best not look too guilty if you walk through the green 'nothing to declare' area (or say it was a gift or something, I am unfamiliar with the law in this respect).
Step 4...
shout DAMNIT as you realise that the power adaptor does not work so you need a new plug adaptor (cheap but inconvienient).
Step 5...
shout DAMNIT even louder when you try to type something and discover that the punctuation keys are completely different on a US keyboard to a UK keyboard. You can get round this with mappings but it is very annoying (not $1000 annoying but annoying nonetheless). If you were not aware of this already, then be aware as you will need to re-learn a few keys, and it can be very annoying if you are switching between US-UK computers/keyboards.
unfortunately it would work both ways!