The lights are even powered by Power-Over-Ethernet. Slick. Anyone know who supplies these?
From http://opencompute.org/specs/Open_Compute_Project_Data_Center_v1.0.pdf :
4.11 LED Lighting Systems Energy-efficient LED lighting is used throughout the data center interior.
Innovative power over Ethernet LED lighting system.
Each fixture has an occupancy sensor with local manual override.
Programmable alerts via flashing LEDs.
It seems to me that the natural evolution in hard drives would be to build the flash cache on to the controller board on the hard drive. Is any drive manufacturer building this kind of hybrid flash/magnetic drive?
Our company, profits selling hardware, while most of our engineering effort goes towards our open source software, SlimServer. The open source part of our business has helped us build an great community of users. Some of our users don't buy the hardware but contribute nonetheless, making our hardware, Squeezebox, more useful and valuable to the folks who do buy. It's a business model that's working for us right now.
IF you can get to the site, you'll find this juicy reference at the end:
[NTFS]
"Inside the Windows NT File System" the book is written by Helen Custer, NTFS is architected by Tom Miller with contributions by Gary Kimura, Brian Andrew, and David Goebel, Microsoft Press, 1994, an easy to read little book, they fundamentally disagree with me on adding serialization of I/O not requested by the application programmer, and I note that the performance penalty they pay for their decision is high, especially compared with ext2fs. Their FS design is perhaps optimal for floppies and other hardware eject media beyond OS control. A less serialized higher performance log structured architecture is described in [Rosenblum and Ousterhout]. That said, Microsoft is to be commended for recognizing the importance of attempting to optimize for small files, and leading the OS designer effort to integrate small objects into the file name space. This book is notable for not referencing the work of persons not working for Microsoft, or providing any form of proper attribution to previous authors such as [Rosenblum and Ousterhout]. Though perhaps they really didn't read any of the literature and it explains why theirs is the worst performing filesystem in the industry....
The Kensington Saddlebag has been the trusted protector of my various laptops over the years. This thing is indestructible, goes over the shoulder or as a backpack, has a spot for cell phone, pda, and zippered pockets for everything else. It's even big enough to be an overnight bag in a pinch. It's internal padding could be a bit thicker, but I wouldn't travel without a padded slipcase around my powerbook anyway.
Squeezebox plays MP3 and uncompressed AIFF and WAV natively and can play back Ogg Vorbis, Shorten, FLAC, QuickTime movies through server side conversion.
Also, it's shipping now, the HomePod has been about to ship since January of this year.
This is exactly how it already works. Unfortunately, Apple hasn't provided any hooks to update the iTunes database (to adjust ratings, etc.) from outside applications.
That said, not all of the information is in the iTunes XML file is currently used by SlimServer, but it could be if somebody wanted it.
How easy or hard it is depends on the software that drives the thing. Setting up an Apple Airport network is extremely simple, and the 802.11 support in XP is pretty darned good.
modprobe doesn't seem to me to be a simple way to set up anything.
Actually, the SlimServer does support ID3 tags in WAV files and has for a while.
And the cd30 only supports windows because they use the crappy windows speech synthesis to create almost recognizable facimiles of the information in your ID3 tags.
The SLIMP3 server transcodes to ogg on the fly, so there's no noticable delay.
The encoder that it uses by default is LAME, and you can choose the settings, so the quality can be tuned to your ears.
With LAME and the Ogg tools installed it can transcode compressed Ogg files and uncompressed WAV and AIFF files and, of courses, play compressed MP3 files natively.
The audio quality of the SLIMP3 is actually quite clean, certainly better than the vast majority of sound cards out there. Can't vouch for the quality of the sound on the HP unit, but if my TV has to be on for me to listen to music, I can tell you that the noise from the high voltage transformer will be a deal breaker.
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The lights are even powered by Power-Over-Ethernet. Slick. Anyone know who supplies these?
From http://opencompute.org/specs/Open_Compute_Project_Data_Center_v1.0.pdf :
4.11 LED Lighting Systems
Energy-efficient LED lighting is used throughout the data center interior.
Innovative power over Ethernet LED lighting system.
Each fixture has an occupancy sensor with local manual override.
Programmable alerts via flashing LEDs.
It seems to me that the natural evolution in hard drives would be to build the flash cache on to the controller board on the hard drive. Is any drive manufacturer building this kind of hybrid flash/magnetic drive?
Try Squeezebox instead.
It was the same guy! He's almost 80...
Our company, profits selling hardware, while most of our engineering effort goes towards our open source software, SlimServer. The open source part of our business has helped us build an great community of users. Some of our users don't buy the hardware but contribute nonetheless, making our hardware, Squeezebox, more useful and valuable to the folks who do buy. It's a business model that's working for us right now.
IF you can get to the site, you'll find this juicy reference at the end:
[NTFS]
"Inside the Windows NT File System" the book is written by Helen Custer, NTFS is architected by Tom Miller with contributions by Gary Kimura, Brian Andrew, and David Goebel, Microsoft Press, 1994, an easy to read little book, they fundamentally disagree with me on adding serialization of I/O not requested by the application programmer, and I note that the performance penalty they pay for their decision is high, especially compared with ext2fs. Their FS design is perhaps optimal for floppies and other hardware eject media beyond OS control. A less serialized higher performance log structured architecture is described in [Rosenblum and Ousterhout]. That said, Microsoft is to be commended for recognizing the importance of attempting to optimize for small files, and leading the OS designer effort to integrate small objects into the file name space. This book is notable for not referencing the work of persons not working for Microsoft, or providing any form of proper attribution to previous authors such as [Rosenblum and Ousterhout]. Though perhaps they really didn't read any of the literature and it explains why theirs is the worst performing filesystem in the industry....
Or better yet, have the lights moving towards you as you are driving.
I'd bet that the apparent speed of the lights would give the driver the sensation of driving faster than s/he is and would naturally slow down.
The Kensington Saddlebag has been the trusted protector of my various laptops over the years. This thing is indestructible, goes over the shoulder or as a backpack, has a spot for cell phone, pda, and zippered pockets for everything else. It's even big enough to be an overnight bag in a pinch. It's internal padding could be a bit thicker, but I wouldn't travel without a padded slipcase around my powerbook anyway.
Squeezebox plays MP3 and uncompressed AIFF and WAV natively and can play back Ogg Vorbis, Shorten, FLAC, QuickTime movies through server side conversion.
Also, it's shipping now, the HomePod has been about to ship since January of this year.
This is exactly how it already works. Unfortunately, Apple hasn't provided any hooks to update the iTunes database (to adjust ratings, etc.) from outside applications.
That said, not all of the information is in the iTunes XML file is currently used by SlimServer, but it could be if somebody wanted it.
Squeezebox does support 128 and 40 bit WEP encryption for wireless connections.
How easy or hard it is depends on the software that drives the thing. Setting up an Apple Airport network is extremely simple, and the 802.11 support in XP is pretty darned good.
modprobe doesn't seem to me to be a simple way to set up anything.
Actually, the SlimServer does support ID3 tags in WAV files and has for a while.
And the cd30 only supports windows because they use the crappy windows speech synthesis to create almost recognizable facimiles of the information in your ID3 tags.
Does anybody have a reference to the camera mentioned? I neeeeeed that...
The SLIMP3 server transcodes to ogg on the fly, so there's no noticable delay.
The encoder that it uses by default is LAME, and you can choose the settings, so the quality can be tuned to your ears.
With LAME and the Ogg tools installed it can transcode compressed Ogg files and uncompressed WAV and AIFF files and, of courses, play compressed MP3 files natively.
It seems ironic to me that two stories down from the post about the new copy protection schemes is an article about perpetual motion.
I'm not sure why phone numbers belong in DNS, it makes more sense to use RFC2806, which already specifies URLs for telephony, like:
tel:+358-555-1234567
points to a phone number in Finland.
The audio quality of the SLIMP3 is actually quite clean, certainly better than the vast majority of sound cards out there. Can't vouch for the quality of the sound on the HP unit, but if my TV has to be on for me to listen to music, I can tell you that the noise from the high voltage transformer will be a deal breaker.
Disclaimer: I work for Slim Devices.
Almost true. Amazon's reviews are approved by Amazon before they appear. Of course, it appears that there's quite a low threshold for approval.
I'm wondering if there will be a "left-handed" version that frees up your dominant left hand for writing, mousing, etc.