This year for Christmas I would like a fist full of 1U 320GB modules and a rack to store them in. Of course I will also need a nice server to go along, say something with dual or even quad 1GHz chips (a dual 1GHz Athlon would be nice if somebody would make a board and chipset for one, could you check with the elves on this).
Oh... and if it's not too much trouble, a fiber outlet to my house please.
Rob
P.S. My wife keep complaining about the bandwidth, so could you get her a GigaBit Ethernet kit for the house.
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Out here in the wild west of Canada (Alberta), Telus has a very good DSL service. I've had mine for over a year and it has worked great. Once they had done maintenece on a server and I had to restart my server to get reestablished, but other than that no problems.
I get it for $39.95 (CAD) (26.65 USD) a month from Telus, they provided the router/DSL Modem (Cisco 625). I think they have changed routers, and are now even offering self intallation. I have 1.5mb downstream and 512kb upstream, and being in a relatively new subdivision, I have a very good connection and regualarly get 1.6mb downstream.
They use standad DHCP (I'm allowed 2 addresses)and I have just recently switched over to a 486 box running LRP (Linux Router Project) and it work damn fine.
They scale up very good too, for $89.95 (CAD) you can get 2.5mb downstream/1.0mb upstream, and for 169.95 (CAD) you can get 4.0mb downstream/1.5mb upstream and 5 statis IP addresses.
All in all, a very good service in my opinion,
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Exactly, heck you don't even have to go as far as an embedded system. You could just boot Linux from a floppy drive onto a RAM disk and have yourself a nice little version all ready to go. Kind of like the starters they have on dragsters, just clip it on to start it up, and then remove it.
You are using a Sony digital camcorder, so I'm guessing you want to stick with the DV/i-Link connection. The first DV package I got was StudioDV (about $200 US) and it came with it's own FireWire/i-Link card and some excellent editing software StudioDV. Works great, but is currently only supported in Win98 and only with their DV card.
If I was building a system from scratch for this, I would go with the Adaptec 8945 FireWire/SCSI controller (one card, both interfaces), and it comes with the Adobe Premire capture plug in. I have just started using Premire and it is great (although the price is high).
For disk space, 1 hour of captured DV take about 13GB, so if you want to capture edit, and then render the output video, look at 30GB of fast disk (will need to sustain about 3.5MB/sec of data transfer). ATA-33 will work with DMA transfer turned on (under Win98), but for best results, you are going to want ATA-66 (controller and disks) or Ultra SCSI (Ultra-Wide and LVD are good, but again, get ready to spend some cash).
On the Linix front, there is dvgrab and Broadcast 2000 (as already mentioned) but one thing still lacking is a DV CODEC so that the AVI's built by dvgrab can be view in Linix.
What is with the USB port, even with no traffic, you get what 600-700 KB/sec, to load 4.8 GB at 700 KB/sec will only take 2 hours.
Why didn't they use a 1394 port (FireWire), heck even with the slowest connection (100 mbps) you can get 10 MB/sec transfer rates, giving you a little over 8 minuets to load the whole HD.
The interesting thing about this tax is, that the original version of the legislation, only taxed recordable music CD-R's or "digital music recording medias". Walk dow to your local computer store, that sells them for "computer use", and there was no tax.
I guess this is the kind of thing you get when the people making the laws don't even know what a CD-R or digital recording media really is.
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Dear Santa,
This year for Christmas I would like a fist full of 1U 320GB modules and a rack to store them in. Of course I will also need a nice server to go along, say something with dual or even quad 1GHz chips (a dual 1GHz Athlon would be nice if somebody would make a board and chipset for one, could you check with the elves on this).
Oh... and if it's not too much trouble, a fiber outlet to my house please.
Rob
P.S. My wife keep complaining about the bandwidth, so could you get her a GigaBit Ethernet kit for the house.
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Out here in the wild west of Canada (Alberta), Telus has a very good DSL service. I've had mine for over a year and it has worked great. Once they had done maintenece on a server and I had to restart my server to get reestablished, but other than that no problems.
I get it for $39.95 (CAD) (26.65 USD) a month from Telus, they provided the router/DSL Modem (Cisco 625). I think they have changed routers, and are now even offering self intallation. I have 1.5mb downstream and 512kb upstream, and being in a relatively new subdivision, I have a very good connection and regualarly get 1.6mb downstream.
They use standad DHCP (I'm allowed 2 addresses)and I have just recently switched over to a 486 box running LRP (Linux Router Project) and it work damn fine.
They scale up very good too, for $89.95 (CAD) you can get 2.5mb downstream/1.0mb upstream, and for 169.95 (CAD) you can get 4.0mb downstream/1.5mb upstream and 5 statis IP addresses.
All in all, a very good service in my opinion,
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If I was building a system from scratch for this, I would go with the Adaptec 8945 FireWire/SCSI controller (one card, both interfaces), and it comes with the Adobe Premire capture plug in. I have just started using Premire and it is great (although the price is high).
For disk space, 1 hour of captured DV take about 13GB, so if you want to capture edit, and then render the output video, look at 30GB of fast disk (will need to sustain about 3.5MB/sec of data transfer). ATA-33 will work with DMA transfer turned on (under Win98), but for best results, you are going to want ATA-66 (controller and disks) or Ultra SCSI (Ultra-Wide and LVD are good, but again, get ready to spend some cash).
On the Linix front, there is dvgrab and Broadcast 2000 (as already mentioned) but one thing still lacking is a DV CODEC so that the AVI's built by dvgrab can be view in Linix.
Why didn't they use a 1394 port (FireWire), heck even with the slowest connection (100 mbps) you can get 10 MB/sec transfer rates, giving you a little over 8 minuets to load the whole HD.
If the Handspring Visor's ever come out with a Flash ROM, I'll be there, until that happens, forget it.
I haven't even owned my IIIx for a year and I've already upgraded the OS twice.
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The interesting thing about this tax is, that the original version of the legislation, only taxed recordable music CD-R's or "digital music recording medias". Walk dow to your local computer store, that sells them for "computer use", and there was no tax.
I guess this is the kind of thing you get when the people making the laws don't even know what a CD-R or digital recording media really is.