Well, if you want a barely functional disaster, sure this is a great choice.
Since I set my system up I have had two total drive corruptions. Luckily I had the data on multiple drives as I was in the experimental stage.
I haven't tested with Windows boxes, but with OS X Tiger it was nigh worthless. Leopard has improved things, so far.
I wouldn't use this for mission critical backup at this point. Oh, yeah, and it is painfully slow over WiFi, haven't tried hard wired yet.
Tell your friends that voting because they are emotionally wounded by a candidates actions is the reason why liberals can't manage to get it together enough to win an election.
And if they point at Clinton remind them that he was actually a moderate as opposed to a liberal and some could even argue he was a conservative moderate at that.
Actually, from what I know of Pixar's renderer, it actually wouldn't be that difficult to do something like this.
For starters, Renderman can be purchased. Secondly, it uses technology that was formerly Open Source (Blue Moon Render Tools) so it isn't like it is totally proprietary. RIB files are pretty big though, so the data would become a problem. I think you could send just deltas though from the last frame rendered if you were tracking, RIB is just a text file, so it wouldn't even be too hard.
Renderman, if I recall correctly, is a bucket renderer, which means that each frame is subdivided into many subframes which are rendered and then assembled. It would be possible to only send the subframes to the distributed network and do the frame assembly back at the studio. This would mean your machine might render Buzz Lightyears elbow, but you're not going to get to see a whole lot of the scene. Trying to hunt down all the little chunks of one frame and then assemble the frames into movies would be even more difficult for a pirate.
Now, the shders that Pixar uses might be a bit of a problem for them to release, but then again, by the time the movie goes into final rendering, the technology in the film is a few years old, so it isn't like they'd lose a lot of ground. Besides, a lot of these techniques are either implementations of SIGGRAPH papers, or are presented in papers at SIGGRAPH after they are created.
I think the only MAJOR concern is the tampering with the output. I don't think there is anyway to safeguard that (you could encrypt it, but that still leaves plenty of holes in the system, you could always hack the output buffer in memory, etc.) The main problem of course being that the only way to see if a frame wasn't tampered with would be to compare it to a render of the frame....and well, then what is the point....
I looked there yesterday and it didn't come up. I did have problems accessing the site in general yesterday. Anyway, you are correct, I couldn't find the information yesterday, I did try.
Sorry for the useless suggestion....we now return you to your regularly scheduled/.
I looked for documentation on Freecache before posting, but you know, there isn't any. There is an overview of the system which I am assuming you are referring to.
That overview contains the following conflicting statements:
"An example:
Say an up-and-coming rock band, the RockLobsters, has a website that has a large file, say http://www.rocklobsters.com/videos/my-new-rock-vid eo.mpg that is 5MB-1GB in size. If it gets popular, they will lose their guitars and homes to their ISP because their bandwidth bill will shoot up."
This is probably where you get the 5MB number from
But later you get:
"Please note that you cannot submit a whole site to FreeCache as in http://freecache.org/http://www.rocklobsters.com/ This will not work as only index.html will be cached. You have to prefix every item that you want to have cached seperately."
Which indicates that Freecache WILL cache an html page, which, would be pretty difficult to get up to 5 MB.
You know, this is utter crap. If you don't want people to have the freedom to post senseless drivel, start by not reading/.
Seriously,/. is about 90% noise, so it is on par with Google. Everyone wants a voice and unless you are willing to shut the F$%K up then you have no place telling anyone else to.
Go read up on your history my friend before blasting the Israelis for "stealing" Palestine from the "Palestinians"
In fact the territories that are disputed were "stolen" from all the nations around Israel, you know the real ones, not the made up Palestine. How did the Israelis "steal" this land? They fought wars with Arab nations that attacked them (though I do think one war may have been pre-emptive based on intelligence they gathered of an impending attack)
The "Palestinians" are really just a mishmash of people from the various Arab nations that Israel defeated in multiple wars. One of the main reasons that Arab nations hate Israel is because it embarrassed them repeatedly in combat. Every time Israel was attacked they beat back the aggressor and then they rolled over them and took their land (most of which they have returned).
It is really easy to spit venom at Israel if all you see if the news where Israeli gunships blow up cars in "Palestinian" territory. How come no one rails against the terrorists who blow up buses and murder women and children (a Pregnant woman and her 4 daughters recently gunned down as they drove how). When Israel stikes a leader of a terrorist group you know what they do, they get in the press and say "Hey we're going to come kill more of your people" you better believe they are going to have a nice be target on their head. And I for one don't blame Israel one bit.
Osama bin LAden just offered a reward for anyone who kills American or UN personnel in Iraq. Boy I HOPE that our government continues with their plan to kill him if they see him. The world doesn't need terrorist murderers running loose killing anyone they disagree with.
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Well, if you want a barely functional disaster, sure this is a great choice. Since I set my system up I have had two total drive corruptions. Luckily I had the data on multiple drives as I was in the experimental stage. I haven't tested with Windows boxes, but with OS X Tiger it was nigh worthless. Leopard has improved things, so far. I wouldn't use this for mission critical backup at this point. Oh, yeah, and it is painfully slow over WiFi, haven't tried hard wired yet.
Tell your friends that voting because they are emotionally wounded by a candidates actions is the reason why liberals can't manage to get it together enough to win an election. And if they point at Clinton remind them that he was actually a moderate as opposed to a liberal and some could even argue he was a conservative moderate at that.
Actually, from what I know of Pixar's renderer, it actually wouldn't be that difficult to do something like this. For starters, Renderman can be purchased. Secondly, it uses technology that was formerly Open Source (Blue Moon Render Tools) so it isn't like it is totally proprietary. RIB files are pretty big though, so the data would become a problem. I think you could send just deltas though from the last frame rendered if you were tracking, RIB is just a text file, so it wouldn't even be too hard. Renderman, if I recall correctly, is a bucket renderer, which means that each frame is subdivided into many subframes which are rendered and then assembled. It would be possible to only send the subframes to the distributed network and do the frame assembly back at the studio. This would mean your machine might render Buzz Lightyears elbow, but you're not going to get to see a whole lot of the scene. Trying to hunt down all the little chunks of one frame and then assemble the frames into movies would be even more difficult for a pirate. Now, the shders that Pixar uses might be a bit of a problem for them to release, but then again, by the time the movie goes into final rendering, the technology in the film is a few years old, so it isn't like they'd lose a lot of ground. Besides, a lot of these techniques are either implementations of SIGGRAPH papers, or are presented in papers at SIGGRAPH after they are created. I think the only MAJOR concern is the tampering with the output. I don't think there is anyway to safeguard that (you could encrypt it, but that still leaves plenty of holes in the system, you could always hack the output buffer in memory, etc.) The main problem of course being that the only way to see if a frame wasn't tampered with would be to compare it to a render of the frame....and well, then what is the point....
I looked there yesterday and it didn't come up. I did have problems accessing the site in general yesterday. Anyway, you are correct, I couldn't find the information yesterday, I did try. Sorry for the useless suggestion....we now return you to your regularly scheduled /.
I looked for documentation on Freecache before posting, but you know, there isn't any. There is an overview of the system which I am assuming you are referring to. That overview contains the following conflicting statements: "An example: Say an up-and-coming rock band, the RockLobsters, has a website that has a large file, say http://www.rocklobsters.com/videos/my-new-rock-vid eo.mpg that is 5MB-1GB in size. If it gets popular, they will lose their guitars and homes to their ISP because their bandwidth bill will shoot up."
This is probably where you get the 5MB number from
But later you get:
"Please note that you cannot submit a whole site to FreeCache as in http://freecache.org/http://www.rocklobsters.com/ This will not work as only index.html will be cached. You have to prefix every item that you want to have cached seperately."
Which indicates that Freecache WILL cache an html page, which, would be pretty difficult to get up to 5 MB.
Maybe people who use /. can try to give Freecache a try so as not to take down servers.
Especially for stuff like this....
You know, this is utter crap. If you don't want people to have the freedom to post senseless drivel, start by not reading /.
Seriously, /. is about 90% noise, so it is on par with Google. Everyone wants a voice and unless you are willing to shut the F$%K up then you have no place telling anyone else to.
Uhhhhh....
Go read up on your history my friend before blasting the Israelis for "stealing" Palestine from the "Palestinians"
In fact the territories that are disputed were "stolen" from all the nations around Israel, you know the real ones, not the made up Palestine. How did the Israelis "steal" this land? They fought wars with Arab nations that attacked them (though I do think one war may have been pre-emptive based on intelligence they gathered of an impending attack)
The "Palestinians" are really just a mishmash of people from the various Arab nations that Israel defeated in multiple wars. One of the main reasons that Arab nations hate Israel is because it embarrassed them repeatedly in combat. Every time Israel was attacked they beat back the aggressor and then they rolled over them and took their land (most of which they have returned).
It is really easy to spit venom at Israel if all you see if the news where Israeli gunships blow up cars in "Palestinian" territory. How come no one rails against the terrorists who blow up buses and murder women and children (a Pregnant woman and her 4 daughters recently gunned down as they drove how). When Israel stikes a leader of a terrorist group you know what they do, they get in the press and say "Hey we're going to come kill more of your people" you better believe they are going to have a nice be target on their head. And I for one don't blame Israel one bit.
Osama bin LAden just offered a reward for anyone who kills American or UN personnel in Iraq. Boy I HOPE that our government continues with their plan to kill him if they see him. The world doesn't need terrorist murderers running loose killing anyone they disagree with.