The hauppage nova-t is a bad joke under windows. Under linux it works perfectly but takes a lot of effort to get working. I have not had anything but joy from the linux version and the quality is fantastic. If I was to do it again from scratch, I would use the nova-t again. The only downside to the nova-t is that it has no hardware decoder so realtime playback is a bit more cpu/disk intensive, but recording is a lot less cpu intensive. The stream will not play back on a hard drive without DMA enabled though (but it works fine using a samba share as a buffer drive), but enabling DMA is easy enough:)
Not only do we use DVB-T in the UK, there is also a cheap PCI card from hauppage which is supported in Linux (after a lot of driver fiddling) and works perfectly with mythtv. It is therefore nice and easy to set up a mythtv box without being a slave to the cable company or satellite company and having full control over everything. New channels get added all the time and they are basically multiplexes over individual channels (ie; what would be one analog channel is a mux of about 8 channels, though most of those are used for crap!) Check out the dvb-t linux docs and mythtv docs if you want to know more. There are a few main muxes all of which are encoded slightly differently (and so some channels do not get as good reception as others, BBC 1/2 are much clearer than ITV2 and Channel 5). The channels are basically MPEG2 streams so if you record them raw, they can be easily converted onto DVD with no analog problems. At its peak the dvb-t service when operated by ITV digital had about 60 channels IIRC. It is a great piece of technology but is not well suited to private companies IMHO.
That is quite crazy - the US is more unequal in income distribution than India and China. (Though one could possibly argue it is easier to work up from nothing in the US)
you should go to consume.net and check by postcode to see all free as in beer wireless broadband points in the area. It is the uk national free wireless network set up by volunteers... just contact the people who are operating the nearest node to where you are staying and check that they have open access or get the keys/info from them.
counterfitting US bills is mainly done by taking a low value US bill (1, 2 or 5) then bleaching it as white as possible. The paper retains the texture/chemicals for fraud tests. Then you just print on a very high resolution printer from a high resolution scan of a higher value bill (typically 20 as 50 and 100 arouse too much suspicion). The rest of the developed world use different sized banknotes for a reason (that get larger by value to stop this). Nobody in the US checks watermarks and you can change serial numbers in photoshop/gimp. Use in a poorly lit place or in a stack of valid notes and nobody would ever know. (note; this is just what I heard on the grapevine, I have never tried this!)
how lazy;) I prefer to take it that little bit further when I install mplayer on gentoo and get a KDE gui on the front of it with the lengthy command:
emerge kmplayer
wow. For some scale, all of Kazaa is currently approx. 5PB across 3.6 million users. BBC's archive is more than twice that! Time for a 7 million user peer to peer system to store the beeb's content!
From my unreliable, tertiary sources I believe that the UK has 6 months for standard data (eg; if you dont use your blockbuster card for 6 months they delete you from their database), CCTV in towns is removed after 2 days (if you ever need the police to review some, or want to get a copy then you need to be quick or you are out of luck), credit card data I am not sure about, though banking data disappears from my online statement every quarter and credit card data disappears after a year. One cant help but assume that my data is sitting in some offsite backup somewhere though. All this is covered under the UK's Data Protection Act 1998, in which an individual can demand a company or govt agency to give them all the data they want about themselves (for a fee of no more than inflation-adjusted 15 GBP), and if they do not, or are found to be withholding data, they are subject to a fine of something like 30000 GBP per instance.
I too have been working on this sort of thing out of interest, but to a much larger degree. Since all my emails, chat logs, financial transactions, contact details, photos, etc. are digital and I have a record of them, I am able to place keys between them and come up with all sorts of useless info (which I will not share:P). Such things as:
Can look at a photo, then see how much money I spent on that date, where I spent it and what I said about it to my friends online using regexps.
Can map out (like this article) my location at any one time, with photos if it was since July 2003 (when I got my digital camera)
Can at-a-glance see all communication with any one person, and who that person knows through CC'd emails, group chats, etc.
Can get a calendar style day by day breakdown of time spent online, amount spent and where, amount I spoke to people online that day, etc.
The system is pretty cool but needs a bit more work before I am happy with it, and it is probably going to be just for me since it is a mess of SQL, shell scripts, perl and java.
Needless to say, the amount of data and stuff I can do with it is very scary. I cannot factor in recorded phone calls, precise supermarket purchases, etc. TIA and it's inevitable bigger brother (think patriot act then patriot act2) could store a lot more of my life than I would ever want to give out.
If you are or were a student, then you are allowed (as a commonwealth citizen) to come to the UK for 2 years employment at any time IIRC (though google for answers). UK students can only come to canada to work for 6 months though:(
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The hauppage nova-t is a bad joke under windows. Under linux it works perfectly but takes a lot of effort to get working. I have not had anything but joy from the linux version and the quality is fantastic. If I was to do it again from scratch, I would use the nova-t again. The only downside to the nova-t is that it has no hardware decoder so realtime playback is a bit more cpu/disk intensive, but recording is a lot less cpu intensive. The stream will not play back on a hard drive without DMA enabled though (but it works fine using a samba share as a buffer drive), but enabling DMA is easy enough :)
Not only do we use DVB-T in the UK, there is also a cheap PCI card from hauppage which is supported in Linux (after a lot of driver fiddling) and works perfectly with mythtv. It is therefore nice and easy to set up a mythtv box without being a slave to the cable company or satellite company and having full control over everything. New channels get added all the time and they are basically multiplexes over individual channels (ie; what would be one analog channel is a mux of about 8 channels, though most of those are used for crap!) Check out the dvb-t linux docs and mythtv docs if you want to know more. There are a few main muxes all of which are encoded slightly differently (and so some channels do not get as good reception as others, BBC 1/2 are much clearer than ITV2 and Channel 5). The channels are basically MPEG2 streams so if you record them raw, they can be easily converted onto DVD with no analog problems. At its peak the dvb-t service when operated by ITV digital had about 60 channels IIRC. It is a great piece of technology but is not well suited to private companies IMHO.
That is quite crazy - the US is more unequal in income distribution than India and China. (Though one could possibly argue it is easier to work up from nothing in the US)
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(from: http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/indic_126_2
154 Mauritania 37.3
147 Uganda 37.4
41 Estonia 37.6
127 India 37.8
78 Jamaica 37.9
100 Armenia 37.9
160 Tanzania, U. Rep. of 38.2
18 Germany 38.2
23 Portugal 38.5
88 Georgia 38.9
126 Morocco 39.5
129 Ghana 39.6
170 Mozambique 39.6
96 Turkey 40.0
54 Trinidad and Tobago 40.3
157 Guinea 40.3
104 China 40.3
130 Cambodia 40.4
87 Turkmenistan 40.8
7 United States 40.8
156 Senegal 41.3
91 Tunisia 41.7
28 Singapore 42.5
71 Saint Lucia 42.6
106 Iran, Islamic Rep. of 43.0
I think you are the winner!
Do you have any photos of your setup online? What is the average price per hdd that you buy and how many HDDs do you have in your setup in total?
Do you have a seperate case for some of the HDDs or are they all stuck in the one full server case?
Also are you aware that 3*350W = 1/kWh = 24/kWh per day = (roughly) average household electricity usage
you should go to consume.net and check by postcode to see all free as in beer wireless broadband points in the area. It is the uk national free wireless network set up by volunteers... just contact the people who are operating the nearest node to where you are staying and check that they have open access or get the keys/info from them.
counterfitting US bills is mainly done by taking a low value US bill (1, 2 or 5) then bleaching it as white as possible. The paper retains the texture/chemicals for fraud tests. Then you just print on a very high resolution printer from a high resolution scan of a higher value bill (typically 20 as 50 and 100 arouse too much suspicion). The rest of the developed world use different sized banknotes for a reason (that get larger by value to stop this). Nobody in the US checks watermarks and you can change serial numbers in photoshop/gimp. Use in a poorly lit place or in a stack of valid notes and nobody would ever know. (note; this is just what I heard on the grapevine, I have never tried this!)
how lazy ;) I prefer to take it that little bit further when I install mplayer on gentoo and get a KDE gui on the front of it with the lengthy command:
emerge kmplayer
wow. For some scale, all of Kazaa is currently approx. 5PB across 3.6 million users. BBC's archive is more than twice that! Time for a 7 million user peer to peer system to store the beeb's content!
From my unreliable, tertiary sources I believe that the UK has 6 months for standard data (eg; if you dont use your blockbuster card for 6 months they delete you from their database), CCTV in towns is removed after 2 days (if you ever need the police to review some, or want to get a copy then you need to be quick or you are out of luck), credit card data I am not sure about, though banking data disappears from my online statement every quarter and credit card data disappears after a year. One cant help but assume that my data is sitting in some offsite backup somewhere though. All this is covered under the UK's Data Protection Act 1998, in which an individual can demand a company or govt agency to give them all the data they want about themselves (for a fee of no more than inflation-adjusted 15 GBP), and if they do not, or are found to be withholding data, they are subject to a fine of something like 30000 GBP per instance.
I too have been working on this sort of thing out of interest, but to a much larger degree. Since all my emails, chat logs, financial transactions, contact details, photos, etc. are digital and I have a record of them, I am able to place keys between them and come up with all sorts of useless info (which I will not share :P). Such things as:
Can look at a photo, then see how much money I spent on that date, where I spent it and what I said about it to my friends online using regexps.
Can map out (like this article) my location at any one time, with photos if it was since July 2003 (when I got my digital camera)
Can at-a-glance see all communication with any one person, and who that person knows through CC'd emails, group chats, etc.
Can get a calendar style day by day breakdown of time spent online, amount spent and where, amount I spoke to people online that day, etc.
The system is pretty cool but needs a bit more work before I am happy with it, and it is probably going to be just for me since it is a mess of SQL, shell scripts, perl and java.
Needless to say, the amount of data and stuff I can do with it is very scary. I cannot factor in recorded phone calls, precise supermarket purchases, etc. TIA and it's inevitable bigger brother (think patriot act then patriot act2) could store a lot more of my life than I would ever want to give out.
and for lazy people, Here is the money shot.
If you are or were a student, then you are allowed (as a commonwealth citizen) to come to the UK for 2 years employment at any time IIRC (though google for answers). UK students can only come to canada to work for 6 months though :(
I think that you want OpenCores.
AltaVista for translations and linux stuff, Yahoo for finding a site and Metacrawler if I didnt find what I wanted first time.