I've bought machines (for very reasonable prices) from various vendors such as ASL and Penguin that come with pre-installed linux that just "works". The vendors work around any driver issues such as dual monitor stuff and you just turn the box on. These vendors actually know what they are selling and have domestic help. Personally, I just toss all those Dell flyers as they just have no value to me.
Absolutely, I just don't get this. It is treason, and when I used to work in defense, they continually reminded us that treason is punishable by the death penalty. Maybe we should remind elections people of this from time to time.
I've been using a Roku HD-1000 for several years to playback HD content. Its kind of
the same idea as this thing, but why didn't these guys add support for HD? The roku is diskless
also (completely fanless/motorless too, so completely quiet), so it is very nice for
home theatre. Just plug via ethernet to a box with a drive and a tuner card to record stuff.
Oh, Roku is also linux based and programmable.
I happen to "own" one of those TV's. I'm an early adopter (5 yr old TV, which was 5K at the time), and the pic is still very good. So yes, for the early adopters, not having 1080i output scaling is a problem. I will be waiting to purchase a blue ray/hd-dvd combo box that can do the scaling. If none comes out b4 the tv finds the end of life, then I guess I can wait till then. The problem is if the player company's piss off people like me, then there will not be enough early adopters to make it come to fruition. I'd like a HD player, but it has to work without buying a new tv. Oh, and I stil prefer my CRT tv to the latest flat panels. The blacks on LCD just suck, and plasma generally does not have 1080 resolution. The DLP's and LCoS offer a decent black level, but then I'm sort of back to a deep unit just like my CRT RPTV. Adding to the overall lack of "I gotta have a HD player" is lack of titles. Blue Ray has yet one more problem in that most of the titles are still MPEG-2 encoded, which if you look very closely, ain't that great even at the higher bit rate of B-Ray.
I say make it like the olympics. Each category gets say 50 patents/yr. A category would be say pharma, or chips, or fusion, etc. At the end of each year, the PTO, looks at all the submissions for the year and the top 50 get the patents. This would stop the dumb ones, (they'd never win) & make the good ones get even more noteriety. After all, one of the goals of patents was to make the technology disseminated. I ask, does ANYONE review patents for "Hey thats a great idea, I'd like to license and manufacture that?" Of course, software patents would just not get a category. Copyright is the correct way to handle sw. my 2 cents
Could this be a case where SCO found something very bad for microsoft during discovery and this is the carrot microsoft is offering to prevent the info from seeing the light of day???
See previous slashdot story about students cheating. I guess until we teach the next generation cheating isn't ok, then people will cheat in elections & think it is ok. Of course, if asked, they'll deny that cheating is ok.
I guess you missed the part about "a few domains" such as yahoo. No, its not broken for your domain, unless you send mail as foo@yahoo.com from your server. Otherwise, your server would greylist normally and come in fine.
Since everyone seems to be mis-interpreting... Nope, its not the "helo" I key on, it is a reverse DNS lookup of the sender's IP address. For a few (granted few, but some of the biggies like yahoo.com) the sender's IP address can be checked to make sure its from where you expect. yahoo.com comes from ???.yahoo.com If it does not, then it is spam. Granted a real yahoo user could send mail from their machine and mark it as from yahoo, but thats not really valid. Yahoo's mail is supposed to come thru their servers. The other's poster's comment is also correct, zombie's do try hard, but with ever changing email from email domains. So if a spammer sends foo@hotmail.com, the foo@gigigi.com, the IP address is marked illegal. I'll admit, this method may not work for an ISP, but it does work well for small biz. I've yet to have a customer complain their mail didn't come in. Whereas before, when I used sender verification, I *did* have troubles because some ISP's would call me a spammer because I'm in a address range they reject.
I use a combination of greylisting (10 mins for normal IP addresses
and an hour for dynamically assigned IP addresses). I also do
a very quick check on a few sender domains such as yahoo.com
A "from" yahoo.com must be from a machine with.yahoo.com. If
not, it is rejected. Works quite well with less than one spam
per day. Given that yesterday had 466 spam's that got rejected,
I'm pretty happy. I cannot recall anyone complaining they can't get in.
Greylisting works really well because real mail servers try hard
to deliver whereas spammers don't try that hard for delivery.
Well put. I've been using this approach for a couple of years now using a Roku HD1000 (thing that can turn transport stream HD data into a component 1080i signal) using ethernet to read
NFS mounted data that was captured using an HD3000 HD ATSC tuner card. Standards, wonderful things.
Ok, I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but here goes. So, you go out, spend your last dollar to buy a processor that goes 5% faster than the one priced 25% less, then you stick VMWare or Xen or whatever to take a 50% hit? I don't think so in my book. Another fascinating take is your wasting 25% of your electric power budget so you can virtualize the machine. Again, I see the reason you want to do this (yeah right run windoze) but I'll just keep running my linux boxes as pure linux. Ok, go, start berating.
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Around 10 years probably, assuming no change to electric rates. Rates here are pretty reasonable at around 10c/kwh. Of course, if rates go up, payback goes down. Of course, simple stuff like buying a 16SEER A/C or higher when the old one dies makes the most sense. PV is still a long payback.
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I agree with one of the oher posters. After rebates etc, my 3.8KW max PV system was around 12K. So I get free energy (about 24KW on sunny days in the spring/fall) for about the
same price as their system, except the juice is free. Its also generating the juice in the afternoon when the power company demand is the highest. When the A/C isn't running, I'm feeding juice back to the power company.
This is basically what I do. I have a roku HD1000 as my front end. It has no fan, runs a basic linux, and has a remote control. Then I have a remote box with a HDTV tuner card in it with big disks. The roku mounts the box with the HDTV card/disks. Granted it would be nice if the roku remote could program the backend box (and maybe it could, I just don't find it that hard to program using cron or just login and start a recording if needed) I want the HT to be as quiet as possible. I don;t want a bunch of fan noise distracting during the quiet parts of a movie etc. I have a DVD player, so why would I put it on disk?
I started my one man company about 10 years ago. Started by consulting to pay the bills and wrote code when not employed. It is certainly possible. In my case, I no longer consult as the products generate enough revenue. My experiences say you must keep updating the product, provide good service to your customers, and not get too discouraged when a prospect says your product sucks. Oh, and be ready for wide variations in your income.
I ported my software to the opteron a few months back. It was quick & easy (I used a beta red hat distro). The main reason I got the box was to provide customers an alternative to sun. I work in EDA (we do the software to make the chips) and 4GB is not enough for the big chips. I'd encourage other developers to give the opteron a try. I think it took all of 2 days to do the port. Performance has been good, but since I can't afford a fast sun box, I can't really compare.
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I've bought machines (for very reasonable prices) from various vendors such as ASL and Penguin that come with pre-installed linux that just "works". The vendors work around any driver issues such as dual monitor stuff and
you just turn the box on. These vendors actually know what they are selling and have domestic help. Personally, I just toss all those Dell flyers as they just have no value to me.
Absolutely, I just don't get this. It is treason, and when I used to work in defense, they continually reminded us that treason is punishable by the death penalty. Maybe we should remind elections people of this from time to time.
I've been using a Roku HD-1000 for several years to playback HD content. Its kind of the same idea as this thing, but why didn't these guys add support for HD? The roku is diskless also (completely fanless/motorless too, so completely quiet), so it is very nice for home theatre. Just plug via ethernet to a box with a drive and a tuner card to record stuff. Oh, Roku is also linux based and programmable.
I happen to "own" one of those TV's. I'm an early adopter (5 yr old TV, which was 5K at the time), and the pic is still very good. So yes, for the early adopters, not having 1080i output scaling is a problem. I will be waiting to purchase a blue ray/hd-dvd combo box that can do the scaling. If none comes out b4 the tv finds the end of life, then I guess I can wait till then. The problem is if the player company's piss off people like me, then there will not be enough early adopters to make it come to fruition. I'd like a HD player, but it has to work without buying a new tv. Oh, and I stil prefer my CRT tv to the latest flat panels. The blacks on LCD just suck, and plasma generally does not have 1080 resolution. The DLP's and LCoS offer a decent black level, but then I'm sort of back to a deep unit just like my CRT RPTV.
Adding to the overall lack of "I gotta have a HD player" is lack of titles. Blue Ray has yet one more problem in that most of the titles are still MPEG-2 encoded, which if you look very closely, ain't that great even at the higher bit rate of B-Ray.
I say make it like the olympics. Each category gets say 50 patents/yr. A category would be say pharma, or chips, or fusion, etc. At the end of each year, the PTO, looks at all the submissions for the year and the top 50 get the patents. This would stop the dumb ones, (they'd never win) & make the good ones get even more noteriety. After all, one of the goals of patents was to make the technology disseminated. I ask, does ANYONE review patents for "Hey thats a great idea, I'd like to license and manufacture that?"
Of course, software patents would just not get a category. Copyright is the correct way to handle sw.
my 2 cents
Could this be a case where SCO found something very bad for microsoft during discovery and this is the carrot microsoft is offering to prevent the info from seeing the light of day???
like pine
See previous slashdot story about students cheating. I guess until we teach the next generation cheating isn't ok, then people will cheat in elections & think it is ok. Of course, if asked, they'll deny that cheating is ok.
Is that microsoft is blackmailing governments now. What might europe do in retaliation???
I guess you missed the part about "a few domains" such as yahoo. No, its not broken for your domain, unless you send mail as foo@yahoo.com from your server. Otherwise, your server would greylist normally and come in fine.
Since everyone seems to be mis-interpreting...
Nope, its not the "helo" I key on, it is a reverse DNS lookup of the sender's IP address.
For a few (granted few, but some of the biggies like yahoo.com) the sender's IP address
can be checked to make sure its from where you expect. yahoo.com comes from ???.yahoo.com
If it does not, then it is spam. Granted a real yahoo user could send mail from
their machine and mark it as from yahoo, but thats not really valid. Yahoo's mail
is supposed to come thru their servers. The other's poster's comment is also correct,
zombie's do try hard, but with ever changing email from email domains. So if a spammer
sends foo@hotmail.com, the foo@gigigi.com, the IP address is marked illegal.
I'll admit, this method may not work for an ISP, but it does work well for small biz.
I've yet to have a customer complain their mail didn't come in. Whereas before,
when I used sender verification, I *did* have troubles because some ISP's would
call me a spammer because I'm in a address range they reject.
I use a combination of greylisting (10 mins for normal IP addresses and an hour for dynamically assigned IP addresses). I also do a very quick check on a few sender domains such as yahoo.com A "from" yahoo.com must be from a machine with .yahoo.com. If
not, it is rejected. Works quite well with less than one spam
per day. Given that yesterday had 466 spam's that got rejected,
I'm pretty happy. I cannot recall anyone complaining they can't get in.
Greylisting works really well because real mail servers try hard
to deliver whereas spammers don't try that hard for delivery.
Well put. I've been using this approach for a couple of years now using a Roku HD1000 (thing that
can turn transport stream HD data into a component 1080i signal) using ethernet to read
NFS mounted data that was captured using an HD3000 HD ATSC tuner card. Standards, wonderful things.
Ok, I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but here goes. So, you go out, spend your last dollar to buy a processor that goes 5% faster than the one priced 25% less, then you stick VMWare or Xen or whatever to take a 50% hit? I don't think so in my book. Another fascinating take is your wasting 25% of your electric power budget so you can virtualize the machine. Again, I see the reason you want to do this (yeah right run windoze) but I'll just keep running my linux boxes as pure linux. Ok, go, start berating.
Around 10 years probably, assuming no change to electric rates. Rates here are pretty reasonable at around 10c/kwh. Of course, if rates go up, payback goes down. Of course, simple stuff like buying a 16SEER A/C or higher when the old one dies makes the most sense. PV is still a long payback.
I agree with one of the oher posters. After rebates etc, my 3.8KW max PV system was around 12K. So I get free energy (about 24KW on sunny days in the spring/fall) for about the same price as their system, except the juice is free. Its also generating the juice in the afternoon when the power company demand is the highest. When the A/C isn't running, I'm feeding juice back to the power company.
This is basically what I do. I have a roku HD1000 as my front end. It has no fan, runs a basic linux, and has a remote control. Then I have a remote box with a HDTV tuner card in it with big disks. The roku mounts the box with the HDTV card/disks. Granted it would be nice if the roku remote could program the backend box (and maybe it could, I just don't find it that hard to program using cron or just login and start a recording if needed) I want the HT to be as quiet as possible. I don;t want a bunch of fan noise distracting during the quiet parts of a movie etc. I have a DVD player, so why would I put it on disk?
I started my one man company about 10 years ago. Started by consulting to pay the bills and wrote code when not employed. It is certainly possible. In my case, I no longer consult as the products generate enough revenue. My experiences say you must keep updating the product, provide good service to your customers, and not get too discouraged when a prospect says your product sucks. Oh, and be ready for wide variations in your income.
I ported my software to the opteron a few months back. It was quick & easy (I used a beta red hat distro). The main reason I got the box was to provide customers an alternative to sun. I work in EDA (we do the software to make the chips) and 4GB is not enough for the big chips. I'd encourage other developers to give the opteron a try. I think it took all of 2 days to do the port. Performance has been good, but since I can't afford a fast sun box, I can't really compare.