oh crap. I should have hit preview...
I mean generally 'yes' but why not quarantine them to a network that allows them only access to a handful of services needed to get things working again:
- Microsoft ?
- a non-partisan collection of anti-virus vendor websites
- ISP specific help pages
- ISP specific log entries outlining proof and nature of infection.
- a page that allows, once a day to get service restored on a probationary period to test for successful eradication.
- netbsd.org/freebsd.org/ubuntu.com/fedora.com/etc...
I mean generally 'yes' but why not quarantine them to a network that allows them only access to a handful of services needed to get things working again:
- Microsoft ?
- a non-partisan collection of anti-virus vendor websites
- ISP specific help pages
- ISP specific log entries outlining proof and nature of infection.
- a page that allows, once a day to get service restored on a probationary period to test for successful eradication.
- netbsd.org/freebsd.org/ubuntu.com/fedora.com/etc...
Not only that; renting a show for $.99 is 'ok' if I can watch it as many times as I want... There are shows that I pre-screen for my son so I want to be able to watch the show and keep it hanging around for a few days before I get a chance to sit with my son and watch it together. If I have to pay $.99 each time, then the concept becomes a lot less interesting... Plus, my son likes to watch shows a few times... Ignoring the increased cost of on-demand re-viewing of individual episodes, the bandwidth waste is deplorable... At $.99 per episode, the cost of a season of a single show rivals the cost of the DVD you can purchase when the season is over.. I can watch the DVD whenever I want and however many times I want...
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out... My household has been a bit of an experiment as I switched to Mythtv about 5 or 6 years ago... First with satellite receivers hooked to capture cards and most recently cable TV tuners hooked to firewire... MythTV with all of its warts is actually relatively good... I've found though, that I can get higher quality and more current programming from the Bitorrent Channel than I can from any of the cable channels so an account on a few private trackers with a client that can do RSS feeds and a seedbox has pretty much supplanted our need for the cable connection... In fact, I'd sooner download a show than let my Mythbackend record it from cable... I still pay the cable bill, though.. The bitorrent channel doesn't get Antiques Roadshows and other shows that my wife watches... Plus, I sort of justify it to myself that I'm still paying for the content; I just choose to get a 3rd party (the scene) to de-commercialize it for me...
Wife Acceptance Factor is pretty high.. In fact, she hates LiveTV now... My son has grown up not really knowing what a commercial is.. When we visited the inlaws this summer, he was watching TV with his grandfather... A commercial came on and he was looking for the skip button.. Our livingroom at home sports a moderately sized LCD with an Acer Revo bolted to the back on the VESA mount. No cables are visible and the remote is a wireless keyboard. No stereo cabinet...
If I could get all of the shows I watch in reasonable quality (720p) automatically sent to a local storage device where I can play them back any time, and as many times as I want, I'd happily pay $70-$80/month (plus price of internet connectivity) for the privilege... I'm dubious that this is going to happen however. It'll probably be substantially more expensive, limit the number of times I can view a show, and if my hardware ever fails, I will have to repurchase all of my content.
If only they'd focus on giving consumers what they want; they'd make a ton more money.
I once did contract work for a north american telecom manufacturer.. The project I was on included a temporary pinhole through the corporate firewall from a specific vendor to an internal database server. I was given contact info for the firewall team at head office (across the border, in another state).. The one day I left the office, I had gotten as far as the lobby and realized I hadn't arranged for the pinhole through the firewall so I walked over to the lobby phone and called the internal extension given me for the firewall team. I spoke to someone there, referenced the project I was on and gave details for the source addresses and internal address/port for the pinhole. In the source addresses, I included my own personal static IP so I could work from home... I told the guy I could give him my managers contact info to verify the request but he said "oh that's ok. I can see you're calling from an internal extension."... Lots of random people were sitting in the lobby at the time... I could have been anyone...
Come to Europe and take a look around. Practically no-one in a big city has a house for themselves, we all live in apartments. If you really want an house, well you have to move to the countryside. Where there is plenty of space and few people and you can drive your cars in normal roads.
In North America, many people with yards work with their hands on various projects.. I spend my weekends in the garage either working on my boat or my vehicles. I have old vehicles which I maintain/upgrade myself. I don't buy a new vehicle every 5 years. In europe (I've spent a lot of time in Germany, Austria, Sweden), few people have anywhere to work on stuff and so when something breaks, like their car, they have to take it to a mechanic or buy a new one. Friends of mine in one of the aforementioned countries, pooled their resources and purchased a boat. However, the boat needs a lot of maintenance which requires expensive covered storage. Whenever they go to work on their boat, they have to transport a lot of heavy tools and supplies in backpacks on the subway. To buy more supplies, they have to call a taxi to take them to the marine chandlery. It was an exercise in futility and they sold the boat. They no longer try to work with their hands. So it's back to a life of working out at the gym and hanging out at the pub...
Sure, it's a single datapoint... My point is that there's a certain difference in lifestyle.. I go stir-crazy when I go to Europe to work for 6 weeks in an executive apartment.
Ignoring the 'one line change', does it seem appropriate that changing a company string should cause an "Out of memory" error? I realize the OOM error happened about 8 stack frames later but I mean, seriously ?
I have my amateur radio license in Canada and use my transceivers fairly regularly out in the back woods... I have a mobile unit (Yaesu FT8900r) and a handheld (Yaesu VX-3R)... With the correct antenna on the handheld, at 2M and 1.5W, I was able to hit a repeater 75km away, line of sight. In the backwoods, not so wonderful. We usually set a truck to cross-band repeat for long distance simplex communication. There is a repeater in the area as well but it is not frequented by other hams since it is a private repeater which backhauls APRS to town. We use it also to talk to one another for an annual offroading event that we put on. In the past we have used it to relay medical status update information from town back to a group still out in the woods. One of our members lives within line of site of the repeater and can hit it from the truck in his driveway.
My only reason for having a ham license is to communicate with my club members as outlined above. I don't involve myself with the greater 'ham' community other than to pay my membership dues in the local repeater society to help support the ongoing maintenance of the repeater network. In listening to some of these guys talk while on my way to work, I envision a rescue call going something like so:
- K2BRK Mayday Mayday Mayday. Anyone listening
+ K2BRK K2HLP what is the nature of your emergency
- I've injured my back and I'm trapped under a log in the Shwitzer valley. I need help.
+ Wow. The Shwitzer valley is a long way away. What rig are you using?
- A yaesu vx-3r and a yoyodyne G8 SMC antenna. Please send help.
+ Oh, I have one of those antennas. It's a good unit. I paid $38 from YingCo on eBay.
Thank you for the contact K2BRK. K2HLP clear.
Just kidding. I suspect most basement Ham radio geeks are literally waiting for the day where they can assist in some sort of emergency situation.
Since it's facing us, that means it's on the side of the planet and as such, it is a cave. If it was on top of the planet, it would be a hole. Do try to keep up.
I lost a disk a few weeks ago and lost my myth-0.21 mysql db's (as well as everything else on the OS disk)... For reasons best left to everyone's imaginations, the most recent backup I had was over a year old... So I decided to just cut and run. I installed mythbuntu 10.04 with 0.23-rc2 on my backend and rebuilt my frontends at the same time. Then I imported my old database and did the upgrade... It all came up ok modulo updating my recording settings... So far it's all been working fairly 'ok'. I'm using firewire to capture from DCT6200's and for the most part, it's been working ok... LiveTV hangs for my wife occasionally...
my biggest beef so far is that the setting for mythvideo to remember your place in the video hierarchy seems to be gone so if you're watching 10 seasons of DVDrip over a span of several weeks you have to write down what episode you last watched if you leave mythvideo and head to recordings... That used to work perfectly in 0.21 but the setting is now gone. Am I the only one who relied on that feature?
My next beef is the updated mechanism for deleting a recording... You have to hit 'd' now.. That's just a mental-programming exercise though.
I must also say the install to my Mac Mini frontend went flawlessly and is working well. Also the install to my Acer Aspire net-box thingy also went well and is a terrific cheap little frontend for watching HD (with VDPAU)...
Similar to the Axis cameras, I have 2 Vivotek IP7152's streaming video to zoneminder running on an Ubuntu box in my basement... One is across the street in my neighbor's garage window facing my house, and the other in my livingroom window facing my neighbor's house. Across the street I have a Yagi pointing at my house and in my entry way, I have an omnidirectional antenna hooked up to some LMR-400 leading to a DD-WRT access point downstairs. The two cameras talk to that.
Performance is pretty good except at night... I have the cameras set to switch to 'night mode' at night which means B&W and no IR filter... Unfortunately, if someone walks past, across the street from one of the cameras, all I get is a few frames with a blurry person in various stages of walking... Night is when I want clarity... My guess is I need a better lens or at best, more clue.
The expensive hotels are going to get the corporate traveller whose expenses are paid by the employer and who, more than likely, is expecting to work in the room so the WIFI charge is simply another line item on the expense report... They're going to get that business regardless whether they have free wifi or not...
The cheaper hotels are getting the cost conscious tourist, salesperson or tradesperson customer. They need to work hard to attract that customer from the other discount hotels and so charging for Wifi would be suicidal...
I don't much care about wifi. I bring an airport express with me... But I refuse to pay for internet connectivity in any hotel. period.
I once stayed at the BirgerJarl in Stockholm and was checking my IP address and lo-behold, I was handed an IPv6 address! Next time I went through the lobby, I mentioned how impressed I was to a lady at the counter and she replied that if I liked, she could give me an IPv4 address instead and to just let her know...
...or the guy remotely bricked his own phone after he got home and realized it wasn't in his pocket... As an embedded firmware guy, I have lots of ways to instrument the device I'm working on to make it easier to solve problems... Things that don't make it into production code...
So if I understand you correctly, you want google to pay 'market rate' for an 80x80 portion of a picture that you took with your EOS 5D-II? How small a part of your image does google have to use in order to qualify for "fair use"?
The American Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Association has announced they intend to claim royalties for scans of books printed on paper produced by members of APPMA!
Yes. Also, get involved in the community of whatever open source project interests you. Act responsible, intelligent, and helpful. Pickup tasks from the TODO list. Make people in the community say "wow, that dude's a real asset." Of course, make sure the stuff you do is correct and accepted by the community. Maybe you'll get commit access eventually once you can be trusted to consistantly do things the way they want. Eventually, someone in the community will realize you're the perfect candidate for a job at their company... You'll find job postings on the community internal mailing list... etc...
I know it seems like a round-about way to go about things. I've been involved in open-source for about 20 years now. I've never had to rely on my resume to get me a job. I've never had to cold-call a place to look for work. I'm a kernel hacker working on some pretty cool embedded stuff now for more money than I'd ever dreamed I'd make and I'm counting down the years to my retirement.. Open source has been very very good to me.
Not all mutations are good. Some mutations are bad. Sometimes multiple mutations occur at the same time... Maybe another highly beneficial mutation occurred at the same time as this one was lost... Imagine losing a limb... Not as easy to run away from predators while your limb is growing back... May not have been advantageous enough..
Alberta has similar... We used it a lot when we were new parents because, face it, babies are weird and you don't trust your intuition about what might be wrong... Turns out every time we called, the response was "you need to go to the hospital and have that checked out"... So either our intuition was spot-on or the hotline is a waste of time...
I did a gasoline->diesel swap on my toyota which included an auto->manual transmission swap. I removed about 6 computers in the process, including the small one that controlled whether you could push in the shift-lock button depending on whether the brake pedal is pressed. I'm sure they count that as a 'microprocessor' and there are probably a small handful of lines of code there, but it's there nonetheless...
There's a bug in the implementation, however. The microprocessor doesn't take the brake-pedal switch as input, it takes the return path from one of the rear brake lights. If you have a burnt out brake light, you can't shift out of 'Park'... But I digress...
Given this was in the "Minor Injuries" department, and the 12 beds in there were occupied by people waiting for other physicians, and the nurses were sitting around waiting for beds to clear up, it doesn't take a great leap of initiative to say "gee, I'm sitting around doing nothing. Instead of playing solitaire while waiting for a bed to come free, let me go through the charts and see if I can progress someone."
Besides, I don't think an undiagnosed heart incident is something that should wait for 8 hours... But I guess you can leave that little part out of your belittling comment because it doesn't serve your agenda.
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oh crap. I should have hit preview... I mean generally 'yes' but why not quarantine them to a network that allows them only access to a handful of services needed to get things working again: ...
- Microsoft ?
- a non-partisan collection of anti-virus vendor websites
- ISP specific help pages
- ISP specific log entries outlining proof and nature of infection.
- a page that allows, once a day to get service restored on a probationary period to test for successful eradication.
- netbsd.org/freebsd.org/ubuntu.com/fedora.com/etc
I mean generally 'yes' but why not quarantine them to a network that allows them only access to a handful of services needed to get things working again: - Microsoft ? - a non-partisan collection of anti-virus vendor websites - ISP specific help pages - ISP specific log entries outlining proof and nature of infection. - a page that allows, once a day to get service restored on a probationary period to test for successful eradication. - netbsd.org/freebsd.org/ubuntu.com/fedora.com/etc ...
That'd be "Rippy the gator" by the Arrogant Worms.
Not only that; renting a show for $.99 is 'ok' if I can watch it as many times as I want... There are shows that I pre-screen for my son so I want to be able to watch the show and keep it hanging around for a few days before I get a chance to sit with my son and watch it together. If I have to pay $.99 each time, then the concept becomes a lot less interesting... Plus, my son likes to watch shows a few times... Ignoring the increased cost of on-demand re-viewing of individual episodes, the bandwidth waste is deplorable... At $.99 per episode, the cost of a season of a single show rivals the cost of the DVD you can purchase when the season is over.. I can watch the DVD whenever I want and however many times I want...
Nope, not a good deal.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out... My household has been a bit of an experiment as I switched to Mythtv about 5 or 6 years ago... First with satellite receivers hooked to capture cards and most recently cable TV tuners hooked to firewire... MythTV with all of its warts is actually relatively good... I've found though, that I can get higher quality and more current programming from the Bitorrent Channel than I can from any of the cable channels so an account on a few private trackers with a client that can do RSS feeds and a seedbox has pretty much supplanted our need for the cable connection... In fact, I'd sooner download a show than let my Mythbackend record it from cable... I still pay the cable bill, though.. The bitorrent channel doesn't get Antiques Roadshows and other shows that my wife watches... Plus, I sort of justify it to myself that I'm still paying for the content; I just choose to get a 3rd party (the scene) to de-commercialize it for me...
Wife Acceptance Factor is pretty high.. In fact, she hates LiveTV now... My son has grown up not really knowing what a commercial is.. When we visited the inlaws this summer, he was watching TV with his grandfather... A commercial came on and he was looking for the skip button.. Our livingroom at home sports a moderately sized LCD with an Acer Revo bolted to the back on the VESA mount. No cables are visible and the remote is a wireless keyboard. No stereo cabinet...
If I could get all of the shows I watch in reasonable quality (720p) automatically sent to a local storage device where I can play them back any time, and as many times as I want, I'd happily pay $70-$80/month (plus price of internet connectivity) for the privilege... I'm dubious that this is going to happen however. It'll probably be substantially more expensive, limit the number of times I can view a show, and if my hardware ever fails, I will have to repurchase all of my content.
If only they'd focus on giving consumers what they want; they'd make a ton more money.
I once did contract work for a north american telecom manufacturer.. The project I was on included a temporary pinhole through the corporate firewall from a specific vendor to an internal database server. I was given contact info for the firewall team at head office (across the border, in another state).. The one day I left the office, I had gotten as far as the lobby and realized I hadn't arranged for the pinhole through the firewall so I walked over to the lobby phone and called the internal extension given me for the firewall team. I spoke to someone there, referenced the project I was on and gave details for the source addresses and internal address/port for the pinhole. In the source addresses, I included my own personal static IP so I could work from home... I told the guy I could give him my managers contact info to verify the request but he said "oh that's ok. I can see you're calling from an internal extension." ... Lots of random people were sitting in the lobby at the time... I could have been anyone...
Come to Europe and take a look around. Practically no-one in a big city has a house for themselves, we all live in apartments. If you really want an house, well you have to move to the countryside. Where there is plenty of space and few people and you can drive your cars in normal roads.
In North America, many people with yards work with their hands on various projects.. I spend my weekends in the garage either working on my boat or my vehicles. I have old vehicles which I maintain/upgrade myself. I don't buy a new vehicle every 5 years. In europe (I've spent a lot of time in Germany, Austria, Sweden), few people have anywhere to work on stuff and so when something breaks, like their car, they have to take it to a mechanic or buy a new one. Friends of mine in one of the aforementioned countries, pooled their resources and purchased a boat. However, the boat needs a lot of maintenance which requires expensive covered storage. Whenever they go to work on their boat, they have to transport a lot of heavy tools and supplies in backpacks on the subway. To buy more supplies, they have to call a taxi to take them to the marine chandlery. It was an exercise in futility and they sold the boat. They no longer try to work with their hands. So it's back to a life of working out at the gym and hanging out at the pub...
Sure, it's a single datapoint... My point is that there's a certain difference in lifestyle.. I go stir-crazy when I go to Europe to work for 6 weeks in an executive apartment.
Ignoring the 'one line change', does it seem appropriate that changing a company string should cause an "Out of memory" error? I realize the OOM error happened about 8 stack frames later but I mean, seriously ?
Ok Sheldon, whatever you say. :)
My only reason for having a ham license is to communicate with my club members as outlined above. I don't involve myself with the greater 'ham' community other than to pay my membership dues in the local repeater society to help support the ongoing maintenance of the repeater network. In listening to some of these guys talk while on my way to work, I envision a rescue call going something like so:
- K2BRK Mayday Mayday Mayday. Anyone listening
+ K2BRK K2HLP what is the nature of your emergency
- I've injured my back and I'm trapped under a log in the Shwitzer valley. I need help.
+ Wow. The Shwitzer valley is a long way away. What rig are you using?
- A yaesu vx-3r and a yoyodyne G8 SMC antenna. Please send help.
+ Oh, I have one of those antennas. It's a good unit. I paid $38 from YingCo on eBay. Thank you for the contact K2BRK. K2HLP clear.
Just kidding. I suspect most basement Ham radio geeks are literally waiting for the day where they can assist in some sort of emergency situation.
Since it's facing us, that means it's on the side of the planet and as such, it is a cave. If it was on top of the planet, it would be a hole. Do try to keep up.
diy mosquito hunting.
my biggest beef so far is that the setting for mythvideo to remember your place in the video hierarchy seems to be gone so if you're watching 10 seasons of DVDrip over a span of several weeks you have to write down what episode you last watched if you leave mythvideo and head to recordings... That used to work perfectly in 0.21 but the setting is now gone. Am I the only one who relied on that feature?
My next beef is the updated mechanism for deleting a recording... You have to hit 'd' now.. That's just a mental-programming exercise though.
I must also say the install to my Mac Mini frontend went flawlessly and is working well. Also the install to my Acer Aspire net-box thingy also went well and is a terrific cheap little frontend for watching HD (with VDPAU)...
Anyway, so far so good.
Performance is pretty good except at night... I have the cameras set to switch to 'night mode' at night which means B&W and no IR filter... Unfortunately, if someone walks past, across the street from one of the cameras, all I get is a few frames with a blurry person in various stages of walking... Night is when I want clarity... My guess is I need a better lens or at best, more clue.
The expensive hotels are going to get the corporate traveller whose expenses are paid by the employer and who, more than likely, is expecting to work in the room so the WIFI charge is simply another line item on the expense report... They're going to get that business regardless whether they have free wifi or not...
The cheaper hotels are getting the cost conscious tourist, salesperson or tradesperson customer. They need to work hard to attract that customer from the other discount hotels and so charging for Wifi would be suicidal...
At least that's my theory...
I don't much care about wifi. I bring an airport express with me... But I refuse to pay for internet connectivity in any hotel. period. I once stayed at the BirgerJarl in Stockholm and was checking my IP address and lo-behold, I was handed an IPv6 address! Next time I went through the lobby, I mentioned how impressed I was to a lady at the counter and she replied that if I liked, she could give me an IPv4 address instead and to just let her know ...
...or the guy remotely bricked his own phone after he got home and realized it wasn't in his pocket... As an embedded firmware guy, I have lots of ways to instrument the device I'm working on to make it easier to solve problems... Things that don't make it into production code...
So if I understand you correctly, you want google to pay 'market rate' for an 80x80 portion of a picture that you took with your EOS 5D-II? How small a part of your image does google have to use in order to qualify for "fair use"?
The American Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Association has announced they intend to claim royalties for scans of books printed on paper produced by members of APPMA!
Yes. Also, get involved in the community of whatever open source project interests you. Act responsible, intelligent, and helpful. Pickup tasks from the TODO list. Make people in the community say "wow, that dude's a real asset." Of course, make sure the stuff you do is correct and accepted by the community. Maybe you'll get commit access eventually once you can be trusted to consistantly do things the way they want. Eventually, someone in the community will realize you're the perfect candidate for a job at their company... You'll find job postings on the community internal mailing list... etc ...
I know it seems like a round-about way to go about things. I've been involved in open-source for about 20 years now. I've never had to rely on my resume to get me a job. I've never had to cold-call a place to look for work. I'm a kernel hacker working on some pretty cool embedded stuff now for more money than I'd ever dreamed I'd make and I'm counting down the years to my retirement.. Open source has been very very good to me.
Not all mutations are good. Some mutations are bad. Sometimes multiple mutations occur at the same time... Maybe another highly beneficial mutation occurred at the same time as this one was lost... Imagine losing a limb... Not as easy to run away from predators while your limb is growing back... May not have been advantageous enough..
Not to mention the lack of any sort of ESD strap... Or maybe it was on his 3rd leg... http://xkcd.com/649/
Alberta has similar... We used it a lot when we were new parents because, face it, babies are weird and you don't trust your intuition about what might be wrong... Turns out every time we called, the response was "you need to go to the hospital and have that checked out"... So either our intuition was spot-on or the hotline is a waste of time...
There's a bug in the implementation, however. The microprocessor doesn't take the brake-pedal switch as input, it takes the return path from one of the rear brake lights. If you have a burnt out brake light, you can't shift out of 'Park'... But I digress...
Given this was in the "Minor Injuries" department, and the 12 beds in there were occupied by people waiting for other physicians, and the nurses were sitting around waiting for beds to clear up, it doesn't take a great leap of initiative to say "gee, I'm sitting around doing nothing. Instead of playing solitaire while waiting for a bed to come free, let me go through the charts and see if I can progress someone." Besides, I don't think an undiagnosed heart incident is something that should wait for 8 hours... But I guess you can leave that little part out of your belittling comment because it doesn't serve your agenda.