You mean homogeneous network, and you're wrong. Unless you're Microsoft, (And even if you are in some cases) there will be at least two platforms you're aiming at: Apple and Win32.
Within Win32, you need to do QA on at least four platforms: Windows95, Windows98, NT4.0 and Win2000. If you're a *nix software shop, you'll need at least four of the following: Irix, Tru/64, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS/X, QNX or BeOS.
And I agree with the previous poster; Certs show nothing and teach little. On the other hand, experience is something you can't pay enough for. When the raid on the fileserver starts to go, do you want a MCSE who barely knows how it works and has to spend forty minutes in the Knowledge base and manuals to deal with it, and then has to run to another tech to double check, or the uncertified guy who has seen the problem before and could deal with it on the spot??
Naw.. Their best use is lusers. I have a couple boxes of them still, and you should see a lusers face when I pull one out of a drawer and say "This'll fix your problem. Just pop it in the drive and run setup.exe."
After the 'OMG' face wears off and they take me seriously, I see them wander back into Marketing with it held at arms length. Of course, most of them have already been bitten by me, so they start prarie dogging over their cubes and laughing while said luser tries to find where to put it.
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No! I was just bitching about this last night! I am not going back to schluffing packets over a friggin 9600 baud link in an unlicensed band! Do you know how much that chafed?!?!
No. Stick to small yagis, mabye a uni-quad and friggin 802.11.
No longer. Deceased. Yadda-yadda-yadda. The code is orphaned, is not being maintained, and will not be. Why? It was a playtoy, to figure out what was really needed in E17, and how to best do it.
If you really want debs, try http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/. Please note, if you can't make it work, there is no recourse! Trying #e on openprojects.net for help will probably only get you yelled at.
Imagine how much more fun the commute down 96/696 would be!
SUV doing ten under in the inside lane? Take out the passenger side tires, and the lane is yours! Teenager in a Rustang riding your ass, and you're already doing 90? Let's see how long he can keep up it with no radiator to cool his Windsor block.
Only real problem would be Grandma and Grandpa doing a lazy 45.. Those old Caddys can take a beating, so make sure you opt for the depleted uranium rounds..
Well, if these 2.6 billion year old microbial mats do indeed form 'First Post', we can at least say with certainty that there is life far, far older. Look at any run of 'first post'ers.. Eight tries, and only one of them manages 50% of the time.
Jennifer Granholm, Attorney General of Michigan, would have felt the need to bully all sites, everywhere, whether they have 'sexually explicit' material or not, because they do not verify your age.
I'm a Michiganian, and this wouldn't be the first time Ms. Granholm tried to assert Michigan law against people in different states or even different countries. She's a really rabid fuck-up. When Voteauction was still running, she attempted to get a injunction against them. Unfortunatly, Illinois got to them first and she didn't get to be on the 5 O'Clock news.. She's also tried to get legally operating online casinos, (denied) porn sites in other countries, (denied a half a dozen times) internet rebroadcast of Canadian television, (denied) MP3 sites in foreign countries (denied).
Basically she think she's gonna make a name for herself..
To enhance my above trick, let them scan themselves for you.
Turn up the OS level on Samba, enable Browse Master and Local Master, set it to share squat over the public Ethernet addy. DHCP ensures you can snag the correct machine/domain/workgroup. Snag all the machine names that now appear in your browse list. Import into a script that copies said file into startup and sends a SMB message at the same time.
I think the list will be shorter next time you run it.
Seriously.. Use commodity PC hardware. Even given specialized compression hardware, the price point you have to beat is so horribly low as to make it moot. I can encode 3 average CD's per hour on a dual PII-300, using LAME, at good bitrates.
1000 CD's would take two weeks, granted, but extrapolate the numbers. For $200 you can purchase a board/cpu combo 1.5 times as fast, and handle that load in just over nine days. By the time you spend $1000, you have enough processing power to handle all those CDs in 45 hours. What about ripping? Well, using the best CD ripper for Linux gives me about 1/4-1/2 the rated max speed of the drive. So, to feed each 'node' (This is batch processing, so the term is in quotes) at the rate it consumes wavs you would require at least one 40x CDROM drive. Another $80 should cover that. Need Ethernet and cases, so toss on some $25 Tulip cards and a cheapo $40 case.
We've spent $1,725.
Okay, to cover the final costs; Three 40G IDE drives should handle the compressed audio and the temp space required by the compression farm. Say $600 for those drives, another $500 for the server they reside in, and $200 in associated 100T network cost.
We're up to $3,025.
Whether to place the CDROM drives in the server or in the nodes is left as an exercise for you; Putting them in the server is more convenient, but you'd require $100 in SCSI hardware. Doubling the number of CDROM drives doing the rip will decrease the number of trips you have to make to change discs to every half hour, but at that point it is vastly less of a headache to go with a pair of 14 disc cabinets and change every 1.5 hours. Really pricey to do CD cabinets tho..
So, $3K for 500 CDs/day the cheap way, add $600 for some extra CDROM drives and SCSI hardware to make your life easier.
Oh. Everything assumes you've got someone changing discs 24/7. Tweak for the desired work day.
Someone else mentioned EAC for Windows; The equivalent for Linux/*BSD is called CD-Paranoia.
I used to see that a lot during LAN parties. The easiest way to correct the behavior is to scare them a little; Copying a little VB executable that shows a hard warning into Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup/ works on Win9x machines. NT machines are easier. smbclient -M helps them stop, as anyone stupid enough to enable SMB doesn't have a clue on how to disable the Messinger Service.
Do you go up in flames every time you touch the door handle of your car? How about when you touch the case of your PC?
No?? Thought so. So long as there is one a functional PCU or the solar arrays are off, everything's fine. PCU fails with astronaut outside? PCU fails period? Shut off the fucking array until you can get the other PCU online. Duh. I don't honestly think they'd let the software keep the array mains on. That would be fucking dumb, like allowing the inner airlock door to be unlatched at the same time as the outer. So what if the other PCU takes a while to get up? There's still the 28V system on the Russian module, so they're not going to lose life support or anything.
Just? Just going EVA?!?!? Crap, doing EVA is already one of the most hazardous things I can imagine! The chance you'll brush into a high-voltage portion of the solar array through your own negligence and have it harm something conductive on your suit have got to be so small as to not increase the danger level more than a few thousandths of a percent! There are already micrometeorites, systems failure, and a billion other things that can happen to you!!
Personally, I'm more worried about the Russian Mind Control Lasers installed on the last module.
No. I actually have a small C++ pre-filter for my mail, which preps it for my perusal later.
Yes, mail.message is zero indexed, but the much later routine to sort the mail by field value is badly written and barfs on any 'nonexistant' string. The mail import function pre-pads the string with whitespace, so I'm not saving any of the real data. Yeah, I fucked the assignment too. Guess I subconciously didn't want to wipe stuff from the boss.
I would have critiqued the destruction of mail.new in the process; A filler int and for loop would be the way to do it.
Damn man! You're just being cruel to yourself and your machines by starving it for memory! On average I have something like 210 megs of memory per machine! And that's not enough sometimes! You hear the machine start to knock on the HD, screaming its clickety-clack pain to the world, and you know you're a bad, bad man.
Get thee to a online merchant NOW! Memory is dirt cheap!! Spend three hours of your pay to get that puppy from 64 to 192! End the pain! The suffering! Think of those achingly overused bits in your swap!
Most offboard MPEG1/2 decompressors require an ATM or RS422 host connection. ATM is expensive junk, and RS422 has a nominal guaranteed throughput of 5Mbps. Most host cards will not guarantee this, nor ever reach it, however..
(As for why; I assume they're going to rip their combined DVD collections to disc. Disk space is dirt cheap these days. Get a good bargain on unflashable 40G ATA66 drives and you're set..)
Looks quite cool, only problem is they want to use CATV distribution; This provides for MPEG2 streaming and decoding, which means each room would still have to have a reasonably beefy PC to act as decoder.
I don't think Jimmy Carter is going to bite on a free trip to Bismarck, ND so he can stand around and look important while people vote like he does every other trip. St. Petersburg, Russia? Sure. Panama City, Panama? Of course. But North Dakota? I'm reasonably sure he's sick of the place from the campaign 20-odd years ago.
On the other hand, we could always offer him the IEO slot on Maui.
We're firing people, `cuz this "let's sell hardware cheap to Joe Schmoo so we can rape him on service charges" thing we've been doing is making us hemorrage money like you wouldn't believe. Instead, we're gonna try the "let's sell hardware cheap to Joe Q. Business so we can rape him on service charges". Mabye we'll offer to add the company logo to the I-Opener for `em. Never know, might work. Gotta do something, `cuz otherwise the buzzards are gonna eat us inside of six months.
There is no unique software. Your product, as superior and new as some may think, is not so different from your competitors products, or your products from three years ago. The stipulation that instead of d/u cost you get d is rather funny in light of this. One does not completely pay 'd' to rewrite Apache because it doesn't have a feature, he pays the much smaller amount demanded by a programmer to make the change.
is illegal for minors to view out of the hands of minors
Not even that clear cut, I'm afraid.. It's not illegal per se for a child to view or have material the standards say is pornography; Most laws merely state that the minor cannot purchase them. I'm assuming parental consent would be good enough, so long as the material cannot be judged to have so damaging an effect as to be 'child abuse'.
So far as superior HW platworms go, you can use the same system. The only real limitations of doing it this way are: "Does Linux/*BSD boot on that arch?" and "Does Linux/*BSD support the partitioning method and native FS type desired by the OS I am installing?"
Win32:
NT requires you create the image from a VERY vanilla install (generic 16 color VGA card, etc) and a little user config afterwards. 95/98 (and I assume ME) work well with very little intervention and a vanilla install, or can be snapped when they reboot prior to finding the hardware during install. (Sometimes setup correctly identifies hardware that is a toughie later).
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You mean homogeneous network, and you're wrong. Unless you're Microsoft, (And even if you are in some cases) there will be at least two platforms you're aiming at: Apple and Win32.
Within Win32, you need to do QA on at least four platforms: Windows95, Windows98, NT4.0 and Win2000. If you're a *nix software shop, you'll need at least four of the following: Irix, Tru/64, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS/X, QNX or BeOS.
And I agree with the previous poster; Certs show nothing and teach little. On the other hand, experience is something you can't pay enough for. When the raid on the fileserver starts to go, do you want a MCSE who barely knows how it works and has to spend forty minutes in the Knowledge base and manuals to deal with it, and then has to run to another tech to double check, or the uncertified guy who has seen the problem before and could deal with it on the spot??
Naw.. Their best use is lusers. I have a couple boxes of them still, and you should see a lusers face when I pull one out of a drawer and say "This'll fix your problem. Just pop it in the drive and run setup.exe."
After the 'OMG' face wears off and they take me seriously, I see them wander back into Marketing with it held at arms length. Of course, most of them have already been bitten by me, so they start prarie dogging over their cubes and laughing while said luser tries to find where to put it.
No! I was just bitching about this last night! I am not going back to schluffing packets over a friggin 9600 baud link in an unlicensed band! Do you know how much that chafed?!?!
No. Stick to small yagis, mabye a uni-quad and friggin 802.11.
EFM is dead.
No longer. Deceased. Yadda-yadda-yadda. The code is orphaned, is not being maintained, and will not be. Why? It was a playtoy, to figure out what was really needed in E17, and how to best do it.
If you really want debs, try http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/. Please note, if you can't make it work, there is no recourse! Trying #e on openprojects.net for help will probably only get you yelled at.
Imagine how much more fun the commute down 96/696 would be!
SUV doing ten under in the inside lane? Take out the passenger side tires, and the lane is yours! Teenager in a Rustang riding your ass, and you're already doing 90? Let's see how long he can keep up it with no radiator to cool his Windsor block.
Only real problem would be Grandma and Grandpa doing a lazy 45.. Those old Caddys can take a beating, so make sure you opt for the depleted uranium rounds..
Well, if these 2.6 billion year old microbial mats do indeed form 'First Post', we can at least say with certainty that there is life far, far older. Look at any run of 'first post'ers.. Eight tries, and only one of them manages 50% of the time.
Jennifer Granholm, Attorney General of Michigan, would have felt the need to bully all sites, everywhere, whether they have 'sexually explicit' material or not, because they do not verify your age.
I'm a Michiganian, and this wouldn't be the first time Ms. Granholm tried to assert Michigan law against people in different states or even different countries. She's a really rabid fuck-up. When Voteauction was still running, she attempted to get a injunction against them. Unfortunatly, Illinois got to them first and she didn't get to be on the 5 O'Clock news.. She's also tried to get legally operating online casinos, (denied) porn sites in other countries, (denied a half a dozen times) internet rebroadcast of Canadian television, (denied) MP3 sites in foreign countries (denied).
Basically she think she's gonna make a name for herself..
Fucked Company - The Dot-Com Deadpool.
ReplayTV - Notice it isn't ReplayTV.com.
Repeat the question to yourself.
To enhance my above trick, let them scan themselves for you.
Turn up the OS level on Samba, enable Browse Master and Local Master, set it to share squat over the public Ethernet addy. DHCP ensures you can snag the correct machine/domain/workgroup. Snag all the machine names that now appear in your browse list. Import into a script that copies said file into startup and sends a SMB message at the same time.
I think the list will be shorter next time you run it.
Seriously.. Use commodity PC hardware. Even given specialized compression hardware, the price point you have to beat is so horribly low as to make it moot. I can encode 3 average CD's per hour on a dual PII-300, using LAME, at good bitrates.
1000 CD's would take two weeks, granted, but extrapolate the numbers. For $200 you can purchase a board/cpu combo 1.5 times as fast, and handle that load in just over nine days. By the time you spend $1000, you have enough processing power to handle all those CDs in 45 hours. What about ripping? Well, using the best CD ripper for Linux gives me about 1/4-1/2 the rated max speed of the drive. So, to feed each 'node' (This is batch processing, so the term is in quotes) at the rate it consumes wavs you would require at least one 40x CDROM drive. Another $80 should cover that. Need Ethernet and cases, so toss on some $25 Tulip cards and a cheapo $40 case.
We've spent $1,725.
Okay, to cover the final costs; Three 40G IDE drives should handle the compressed audio and the temp space required by the compression farm. Say $600 for those drives, another $500 for the server they reside in, and $200 in associated 100T network cost.
We're up to $3,025.
Whether to place the CDROM drives in the server or in the nodes is left as an exercise for you; Putting them in the server is more convenient, but you'd require $100 in SCSI hardware. Doubling the number of CDROM drives doing the rip will decrease the number of trips you have to make to change discs to every half hour, but at that point it is vastly less of a headache to go with a pair of 14 disc cabinets and change every 1.5 hours. Really pricey to do CD cabinets tho..
So, $3K for 500 CDs/day the cheap way, add $600 for some extra CDROM drives and SCSI hardware to make your life easier.
Oh. Everything assumes you've got someone changing discs 24/7. Tweak for the desired work day.
Someone else mentioned EAC for Windows; The equivalent for Linux/*BSD is called CD-Paranoia.
I used to see that a lot during LAN parties. The easiest way to correct the behavior is to scare them a little; Copying a little VB executable that shows a hard warning into Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup/ works on Win9x machines. NT machines are easier. smbclient -M helps them stop, as anyone stupid enough to enable SMB doesn't have a clue on how to disable the Messinger Service.
Do you go up in flames every time you touch the door handle of your car? How about when you touch the case of your PC?
No?? Thought so. So long as there is one a functional PCU or the solar arrays are off, everything's fine. PCU fails with astronaut outside? PCU fails period? Shut off the fucking array until you can get the other PCU online. Duh. I don't honestly think they'd let the software keep the array mains on. That would be fucking dumb, like allowing the inner airlock door to be unlatched at the same time as the outer. So what if the other PCU takes a while to get up? There's still the 28V system on the Russian module, so they're not going to lose life support or anything.
Just? Just going EVA?!?!? Crap, doing EVA is already one of the most hazardous things I can imagine! The chance you'll brush into a high-voltage portion of the solar array through your own negligence and have it harm something conductive on your suit have got to be so small as to not increase the danger level more than a few thousandths of a percent! There are already micrometeorites, systems failure, and a billion other things that can happen to you!!
Personally, I'm more worried about the Russian Mind Control Lasers installed on the last module.
Cowboy Neil
No. I actually have a small C++ pre-filter for my mail, which preps it for my perusal later.
Yes, mail.message is zero indexed, but the much later routine to sort the mail by field value is badly written and barfs on any 'nonexistant' string. The mail import function pre-pads the string with whitespace, so I'm not saving any of the real data. Yeah, I fucked the assignment too. Guess I subconciously didn't want to wipe stuff from the boss.
I would have critiqued the destruction of mail.new in the process; A filler int and for loop would be the way to do it.
while (mail.new)
{
if (pron(mail.attachment)) strcpy(mail.priority, "Hella Important!");
else if (!strcmp(mail.sender, my_boss)) mail.message[1] == '\0';
mail.new--;
}
Damn man! You're just being cruel to yourself and your machines by starving it for memory! On average I have something like 210 megs of memory per machine! And that's not enough sometimes! You hear the machine start to knock on the HD, screaming its clickety-clack pain to the world, and you know you're a bad, bad man.
Get thee to a online merchant NOW! Memory is dirt cheap!! Spend three hours of your pay to get that puppy from 64 to 192! End the pain! The suffering! Think of those achingly overused bits in your swap!
Most offboard MPEG1/2 decompressors require an ATM or RS422 host connection. ATM is expensive junk, and RS422 has a nominal guaranteed throughput of 5Mbps. Most host cards will not guarantee this, nor ever reach it, however.. (As for why; I assume they're going to rip their combined DVD collections to disc. Disk space is dirt cheap these days. Get a good bargain on unflashable 40G ATA66 drives and you're set..)
Looks quite cool, only problem is they want to use CATV distribution; This provides for MPEG2 streaming and decoding, which means each room would still have to have a reasonably beefy PC to act as decoder.
I don't think Jimmy Carter is going to bite on a free trip to Bismarck, ND so he can stand around and look important while people vote like he does every other trip. St. Petersburg, Russia? Sure. Panama City, Panama? Of course. But North Dakota? I'm reasonably sure he's sick of the place from the campaign 20-odd years ago.
On the other hand, we could always offer him the IEO slot on Maui.
Translation:
We're firing people, `cuz this "let's sell hardware cheap to Joe Schmoo so we can rape him on service charges" thing we've been doing is making us hemorrage money like you wouldn't believe. Instead, we're gonna try the "let's sell hardware cheap to Joe Q. Business so we can rape him on service charges". Mabye we'll offer to add the company logo to the I-Opener for `em. Never know, might work. Gotta do something, `cuz otherwise the buzzards are gonna eat us inside of six months.
$48,000 per year to keep this thing "fresh"
Nope. The calculation should be 12*$50, not 3200*15.
There is no unique software. Your product, as superior and new as some may think, is not so different from your competitors products, or your products from three years ago. The stipulation that instead of d/u cost you get d is rather funny in light of this. One does not completely pay 'd' to rewrite Apache because it doesn't have a feature, he pays the much smaller amount demanded by a programmer to make the change.
is illegal for minors to view out of the hands of minors
Not even that clear cut, I'm afraid.. It's not illegal per se for a child to view or have material the standards say is pornography; Most laws merely state that the minor cannot purchase them. I'm assuming parental consent would be good enough, so long as the material cannot be judged to have so damaging an effect as to be 'child abuse'.
So far as superior HW platworms go, you can use the same system. The only real limitations of doing it this way are: "Does Linux/*BSD boot on that arch?" and "Does Linux/*BSD support the partitioning method and native FS type desired by the OS I am installing?"
Win32:
NT requires you create the image from a VERY vanilla install (generic 16 color VGA card, etc) and a little user config afterwards. 95/98 (and I assume ME) work well with very little intervention and a vanilla install, or can be snapped when they reboot prior to finding the hardware during install. (Sometimes setup correctly identifies hardware that is a toughie later).